The Burmese Years (collected Works of Orwell)
About This Novel
As Orwell's first novel, it presents an extremely real colonial life: the whites are corrupt and degenerate, and the natives are ignorant. However, as a white protagonist, Flory is struggling with an identity crisis. On the one hand, he sympathizes with the Eastern peoples, hates imperialism, and longs to find someone who can be like him. The friend who shared his life in Myanmar, on the other hand, "knowing that he has the potential to become an upright man" is afraid of "saving his soul but losing the whole world", so he can only "watch his life wasted and corrupted in this shameful and terrible futility".
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Still good, worth seeing
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