The daughter of the priest. Long live ficus! Orwell J.

Many are used to perceiving Orwell only in the key to the genre of anti -utopia, but the novels “The Daughter of the Priest” and “Long live ficus!” He will introduce you to another Orwell, a master of psychological realism. Both novels are socio-critical, about loners that do not fit into society.

1. "The daughter of the priest"

England, the era of the great depression. Dorothy is the daughter of the Monk Charles Heir, the rector of the Church of St. Athenstan in Suffolka. She is a skilled mistress, commits good deeds, tries to cultivate only good thoughts in herself, and when bad ones arise, she points her hand with a pin. Even when she sees the costumes for the school performance, she is haunted by thoughts of poverty that surrounds her, and about debts that she cannot afford to pay. And suddenly she is in London. She has silk stockings, in her pocket money, and she cannot recall her name..

This is a novel about a girl who has lost her memory due to an accident, she reorganizes the questions of faith and identity in the world unemployment and hunger.

2. “Long live the ficus!”

Gordon Comment - the main character of the novel “Long live ficus!”, 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 a 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.