Homage to Catalonia is but one literary allusion in Didion's Democracy. Some others are listed below.

Authors & Works:
Consider what works by each author you've already read, and research information on unfamiliar authors and their texts using your search engine. What similarities in time period, subject matter, genre emerge among authors on the list? Taken together, what do these similarities tell us about Didion's interests? about implicit messages Democracy might send to readers?

Henry Adams--Democracy
W.H. Auden--"September 1, 1939"
Joseph Conrad--Victory
T.S. Eliot--"The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Landscapes: New Hampshire"
Ernest Hemingway--"Hills Like White Elephants"
James Hilton--Random Harvest
A.E. Housman--"Loveliest of Trees"
Soren Kirkegaard
Norman Mailer (see Armies of the Night)
George Orwell--Homage to Catalonia
Delmore Schwartz
Wallace Stevens--"Of Mere Being"
Robert Louis Stevenson--Swiss Family Robinson
Anthony Trollope

Poetry:
Match the following lines with the authors and/or works listed above. How do the entire poems from which the lines are excerpted inform your reading of Democracy?

Black wing, brown wing hover over
Twenty years and the spring is over.


Of my three-score years and ten
These twenty would not come again.


Less time left for those visions and revisions.


A gold-feathered bird
Sings in the palm, without human meaning,
Without human feeling, a foreign song.