1. Overview | Aspect | Details | |------------|-------------| | Original Title | Animal Farm | | Author | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | | Spanish Translator | Various (e.g., A. R. Castelao, Miguel Temprano García) | | Published | 1945 (original); Spanish translations from late 1940s | | Genre | Allegorical novella, political satire, dystopian fiction | | Narrator | Third-person omniscient | | Setting | Manor Farm, England – indeterminate early 20th century | Key fact: Orwell wrote the book as a direct attack on Stalinism. He submitted it during WWII, but publishers feared it would hurt the UK‑USSR alliance. It finally appeared in 1945. 2. Historical & Political Context To understand Rebelión en la Granja , you must know the real‑world events it satirises: