Orwell fue un muy prolífico autor y escribió un diario de 20 volúmenes que no publicó de manera inmediata (excepto algunos fragmentos). Ahora, a partir de hace unos cuantos días, un grupo de académicos están subiendo las entradas de su extenso diario a un blog, The Orwell Prize. Las entradas corresponden al día y hoy, por ejemplo, se publica en el blog lo que Orwell escribió el 25 de agosto de 1938. Más abajo encontrarás esas palabras.
El proyecto busca generar más atención al trabajo del escritor inglés y representa una excelente oportunidad para comunicarse con otras generaciones. El webmaster ha incluído vínculos, algunas definiciones y hasta mapas de Googlemaps para que el lector tenga una idea más clara del contexto y el ambiente de Orwell.
Aquí lo que escribió Orwell hace 70 años:
Everything in Suffolk is much more dried-up than in Kent. Until the day we arrived there had been no rain for many weeks & various crops had failed. Near S’wold saw several fields of oats & barley being harvested which had grown only 1’ or 18” high. Ears nevertheless seemed normal. Wheat crop all over the world said to be heavy.
A bedstraw hawk-moth found in our back garden & mounted by Dr Collings¹. Evidently a straggler from the continent. Said to be the first seen in that locality for 50 years.
Little owl very common round here. Brown owl does not seem to exist.
Dr C. says the snake I caught was the “smooth snake”, non-poisonous & not very common.
Today hot again.
Gipsies beginning to arrive for the hop-picking. As soon as they have pitched their caravans the chickens are let loose & apparently can be depended on not to stray. The strips of tin for cloth-pegs are cut of biscuit boxes. Three people were on the job, one shaping the sticks, one cutting out the tin & another nailing it on. I should say one person doing all these jobs (also splitting the pegs after nailing) could make 10-15 pegs an hour.
Another white owl this evening.
¹The Blairs’ family doctor at Southwold from 1921. His son, Dennis, was a friend of Orwell’s; see 109, n. 1. (Peter Davison)
Mi libro favorito de Orwell: 1984.
Hace poco leí un libro excelente de Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters.
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