Animal Farm
George Orwell's allegorical novel about Stalinism told through farm animals.
Where Animal Farm comes up1 episode or test
- Could take 17 tomes
- Fixed tone of historical realism
- 92 pages
- Talking animal announces metaphor
- Readers suspend disbelief
- Covers propaganda, coercion, lying
Animals give distance, so a heavy subject reads lightly
From Yann Martel on Animal Farm
What was said about Animal Farm
Orwell used farm animals to approach Stalinism from a safe distance. Yann Martel says Animal Farm delivers in 92 pages what could take 17 tomes, covering propaganda, coercion and lying. He cites it as proof that animal characters let a writer take on a heavy subject lightly.
Martel says animals let readers suspend disbelief, and a talking animal announces that the story is a metaphor. He took the same route in Beatrice and Virgil, using a monkey and a donkey for a Holocaust allegory that avoids the fixed tone of historical realism. His line: "it allows you a certain distance from your subject".
How to Become a Novelist Without Writing Lessons (Yann Martel Interview)
It delivers in 92 pages what could take 17 tomes, covering propaganda, coercion and lying. Martel cites it as proof that animals let writers approach heavy subjects lightly.
Orwell used farm animals to approach Stalinism from a safe distance. Yann Martel says Animal Farm delivers in 92 pages what could take 17 tomes, covering propaganda, coercion and lying. He cites it as proof that animal characters let a writer take on a heavy subject lightly.
Martel says animals let readers suspend disbelief, and a talking animal announces that the story is a metaphor. He took the same route in Beatrice and Virgil, using a monkey and a donkey for a Holocaust allegory that avoids the fixed tone of historical realism. His line: "it allows you a certain distance from your subject".
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