Orwell's aunt Nellie Limouzin also lived in Paris and gave him social and, when necessary, financial support. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a large Russian emigre community in Paris. Scott Fitzgerald had lived in the same area.
American writers like Ernest Hemingway and F. In spring of 1928 he moved to Paris and lived at 6 Rue du Pot de Fer in the Latin Quarter, a bohemian quarter with a cosmopolitan flavour. While contributing to various journals, he undertook investigative tramping expeditions in and around London, collecting material for use in "The Spike", his first published essay, and for the latter half of Down and Out in Paris and London. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.Īfter giving up his post as a policeman in Burma to become a writer, Orwell moved to rooms in Portobello Road, London at the end of 1927 when he was 24. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. Its target audience was the middle and upper class members of society-those who were more likely to be well educated-and exposes the poverty existing in two prosperous cities: Paris and London. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities, which was written deliberately in a non-academic tone.
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933.
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