George Orwell. Inaccessible soul. Nedoshinvin V.M.

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

But now 20 volumes of his heritage are studied in schools, his books have been translated In 65 languages, films and performances were staged on them, and the total circulation of his novel “1984” only in England exceeded 40 million...

Vyacheslav Nedoshinov - writer, author of the books “Address of love. Houses and households of Russian literature ”and“ Walks in the Silver Age ”. 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. Oruwell and translations of his works. The result of this work was the detailed biography of the English classic, awarded the Prize of the SP of Moscow “The Crown” (2020) and the prize named after Alexandra Belyaev (2022).

"George Orwell. Inaccessible soul ”is not just an exciting story about the life of the writer and his books, about his views and his era, but 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 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.

“Asker, icogue,“ white Raven ” - 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. ”