George Orwell. Inaccessible soul. Nedoshinvin V.M.

The first "Russian portrait" of the English classic.

In the book of Vyacheslav Nedoshivin, the main topic is first examined - “Orwell and Russia”, the evolution of the writer's views on the USSR and Russia.

The biography is illustrated by unique photographs from the London Archive of the writer.

“Holy George”, “Conscience of generation”, “Prophet”... George Orwell was a man who would be burned at the Middle Ages on the stake.

But now 20 volumes of his heritage are studied in schools, his books are translated into 65 languages, films and performances are staged on them, and the total circulation of his novel “1984” only in England exceeded 40 million... < /p>

130 of his predictions out of 137 - have already come true, and this is not the limit.

Vyacheslav Nedoshinov - writer, author of the books “Address of love. Houses and households of Russian literature. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris ”and“ Walks in the Silver Age. Saint Petersburg". For many years - from the dissertation about anti -utopias in 1985 to articles in scientific collections and magazines (Foreign Literature) - was engaged in the work of J. Orwell and translations of his works.

"George Orwell. Inaccessible soul ”is not only a detailed biography of the English classic, not just a fascinating story about his life and books, about his views and his era, but, in a sense, his first“ Russian portrait ”. About the Russian woman who was in love with, about the emigrant officer from Russia, who saved him in Paris, and about the front-line friend-Petersburger, who, on the contrary, was saved in Spain by Orwell himself, about the diaries of the writer who disappeared in the cellars of Lubyanka, and about The correspondence with the USSR, which was released with us only in the nineties...

The book is illustrated by unique photographs from the writer’s London archive, many of which are published in Russia for the first time.

“Ascet, an outcast,“ white crow ” - he, a fugitive from the camps of any“ winners ”, all his life chose a side of humiliated and offended, chose for himself not heaven, but hell. He went “under the bridges” and in the nights with vagabonds and poor in England, worked as a dishwasher in Paris, was the first to eager for intelligence in Spain and returned to London for fascist bombs, when everyone, opposite, was evacuated. “The worse, the better” - this is the motto of Orwell, if life was put on the card. ”