Overview
Ā«En el aƱo 1936, un escritor plantĆ³ unas rosasĀ». AsĆ comienza el nuevo libro de Rebecca Solnit, una reflexiĆ³n sobre un jardinero apasionado que fue, ademĆ”s, la voz mĆ”s importante del siglo XX frente a la mentira y el totalitarismo: George Orwell. A partir de su inesperado encuentro con aquellas rosas que Orwell cultivĆ³ hace mĆ”s de ochenta aƱos y que siguen hoy rebosantes de vida en su jardĆn, la autora indaga en ese aspecto mĆ”s desconocido de la vida del escritor para descubrir en quĆ© medida su devociĆ³n por las flores puede iluminar sus compromisos Ć©ticos y estĆ©ticos como escritor y como luchador antifascista.
Con su caracterĆstica capacidad para establecer conexiones inesperadas, Solnit entremezcla la vida y la obra literaria del autor de 1984, y su vĆnculo con la naturaleza y el mundo de los sentidos, con otras historias como las de las rosas de la fotĆ³grafa Tina Modotti, la obsesiĆ³n de Stalin por hacer crecer limones en condiciones de frĆo extremas, la Guerra Civil espaƱola, la crĆtica de Jamaica Kincaid al colonialismo o la industria del cultivo de rosas en Colombia, y da pie a una reflexiĆ³n sobre el placer, la belleza, el lenguaje, la escritura, la esperanza y la verdad como actos de resistencia.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
āAn exhilarating romp through Orwellās life and times and also through the life and times of roses.ā āMargaret Atwood
āA captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.ā āClaire Messud, Harper's
āNobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.ā āVogue
A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world
āIn the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.ā So be-gins Rebecca Solnitās new book, a reflection on George Orwellās passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power.
Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnitās account of this overlooked aspect of Orwellās life journeys through his writing and his actionsāfrom going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism.
Through Solnitās celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwellās own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modottiās roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwellās slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaidās examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnitās portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
This book title, Las rosas de Orwell / Orwell's Roses, ISBN: 9788426411112, by Rebecca Solnit, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (July 19, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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