Orwell. Felshtinsky Yu.

Not everything pronouncing the aphorism “everyone is equal, but some are more equal,” they know that they quote George Orwell. His own life could serve as the basis for the novel. He was born in India, served in the colonial police in Burma, wandered around the slums of Paris, fought against the Francists in Spain, and at the same time remained a true Englishman. Famous primarily as the author of the parable of the “Cross Courtyard” and the Roman-Utopia “1984”, he worked as an editor and leading radio programs of the BBC, analyzed the creativity of not only contemporaries, but also his great predecessors Shakespeare, Swift, Dickens and Leo Tolstoy.

How did conservatism and left ideas get along in his worldview? Why did he choose his native England to the place of action of the novel about totalitarianism? Why, considering himself a socialist, he was severely criticized by the British Labor, hated the Stalinist regime and introduced the British authorities the “black list” of unreliable cultural figures? These questions are answered by the authors of the biography of George Orwell, called by his colleague and fellow countryman Victor Pritor the most original of his contemporaries.