Small collected works. Orwell J.

English writer, critic, publicist and journalist George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) entered the history of literature primarily thanks to his last novel “1984” (1948, publ. 1949), which, along with “We” E. Zamyatin and the “beautiful new world” by O. Haxly, became one of the main anti-sculptopia books of the twentieth century. The society depicted by the author is based on the usurpation of power in the hands of one party, the only true ideology, absurd propaganda, total control of public and private life and the forcibly suppressed of any dissent; The place and time of the novel is the fictional country of Oceania in 1984, however, the realities of the Soviet system of the 1930-1940s and other dictatorial regimes are easily recognized in the guise of this state-because, according to Orwell, all the dictatorships are standing for each other... In this collection are also included in this collection The famous satirical fairy tale “Castard” (1945), dedicated to the topic of devoted conquests of the revolution (later developed in 1984), and the novel “Long live ficus!” (1936), an ironic and sad story about how the poet-man John Comstock declared a war on a business god, refusing to live for money worthy of social status and other philistine values ​​(which he considered the ficus placed on the windowsill), and about the fact that he considered it What it led to.