Long live ficus! Orwell J.

Many are used to perceiving Orwell only in the key to the genre of anti -utopia, but the novel "Long live ficus!" He will introduce you to another Orwell, a master of psychological realism.

Gordon Comstock - the main character of the novel - threw a good job, moved to a bookstore, where he receives half the money from his previous salary. After all, he hates the consumer society, material values ​​and vulgarity of the everyday life of life, which symbolizes ficus on the window. In his reaction to the monstrous system, he himself turns into a kind of monster. Comstock goes through the path to understanding that salvation can be found not in the escape from life, but in a clash with it.

A socio-critical novel, about a loner who does not fit into society.