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Novel · 1934

Burmese Days

George Orwell

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Novel · 1934 · English · Modern

Burmese Days

George Orwell — born Eric Arthur Blair

A timber merchant's slow suffocation inside the club-room racism of British Burma.

Colonial fictionSatireEmpireIsolationComplicity

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Empire read as a psychological wound in the coloniser: the mask, Orwell says elsewhere, grows to fit the face.

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