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If this is interesting to you, I would absolutely recommend you read Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. It is a very engaging account of a perio
by jackyinger 5y ago
If this is interesting to you, I would absolutely recommend you read Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. It is a very engaging account of a period of destitution in his life.
- misiti3780 5y agoGreat book!
- germinalphrase 5y ago“Hunger” by Knut Hamsun is another one.
- kergonath 5y agoI remember reading that as a (not exactly wealthy) student just arrived in London. I felt lucky living on £5/day. It also shows very convincingly how the presumably fair enforcement of unjust laws and norms can be a weapon in a context of class warfare. It was then that I realised that things I had internalised as normal (like rules to prevent rough sleeping) were in fact reactionary weapons to punish a group of people who were in that state mostly through tough luck of mental health issues. As Anatole France wrote, “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”