Barnyard. Long live ficus! Orwell J.

English writer, critic, publicist and journalist George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair), primarily due to his last novel “1984” (1948, publ. 1949), which became one of the main anti-sculptopia books centuries. The society depicted by the author is based on the total non -freedom of personality, propaganda and open violence - the victorious, according to the Gorky and Terrible prediction of the author, in the fictional state of Oceania by 1984; However, in his appearance the realities of the Soviet system of the 1930-1940s and other dictatorial regimes are easily recognized-for, according to Orwell, all the dictatorships are standing for each other...

The famous satirical fairy-tale “Farm” is also included in the real collection Dvor ”(1945), dedicated to the topic of devoted conquests of the revolution (later developed in 1984), the autobiographical novel“ Days in Burma ”(1934) is a tough and mocking denunciation of a romantic myth about European civilization, which bears the colonized peoples of the East, and Roman "Long live ficus!" (1936), an ironic and sad story about how the poet-man John Comstock declared war on a business god, refusing to live for money worthy of social status and other philistine values ​​(which he considered the symbol of the ficus on the windowsill), and about that about that , what it led to.