At the end of 1936 George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair was his real name) went to Spain to fight fascism. He got involved with the POUM militia and went to the battlefront of Aragon. He wrote his book ?Homage to Catalonia' just six month after returning to England. He wanted to relate his vision of the civil war, and his participation and set the record straight about the Revolution and political dissension. This book tells us the experience of the author during the Spanish Civil War. Though it does not convey much literally, it makes us aware of the historic period and it helps us understand the progression of the author from 1984 and the ?animal farm'. When George Orwell arrived in Catalonia in December 1936, he his puepose was only to conduct coverage, but his leftist beliefs and the revolutionary atmosphere in Barcelona pushed him to be committed the cause of the working-class militia. We feel his disillusion with the communist party of USSR which impeded the Revolution in Spain instead of spreading it.
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