1984. Orwell D.

The famous novel by George Orwell over the years does not lose his relevance, the attitude to the novel changes, but once again we are convinced that the writer traced the totalitarian idea to its logical end. Classical anti -utopia, more strongly which is impossible to imagine anything. This is a generalized formula of the state built on the destruction of personality. “1984” is not a picture of a real system, not a speculative attempt to present the coming, this is a novel-reproduction, it is a picture of how to be not. Novoyaz ” - these neologisms have become part of our reality. For each of us, George Orwell offers to think about where that line, which is not scary and tolerant, and for her - there is no longer a road back.

“We” Evgeny Zamyatin, “On the marvelous new world” of Oldos Huxley, “1984” George Orwell - writers of the 20th century created nightmarish models of states, which are in essence, but united by one common idea: to destroy human individuality, to create a universal screw, a cell cell. The novel “1984” is a mirror, having looked at which everyone sees his greatest fear - the future that can come everywhere if not fighting totalitarianism; the present, the realities of which we do not want to admit; The past that does not want to let us go.

The fictional world “1984” and the real totalitarian regimes, the mysterious book of Emmanuel Goltstein and the theory that served as its basis, the author’s personal experience during the war in Spain, the colonial official in Burma. And Britain during the Second World War - in the comments you will find a detailed story about why it was Roman Orwell that became a universal formula for totalitarianism.