1984. Slot yard. Roman, story

The English writer, critic, publicist and journalist George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) went down in the history of literature primarily thanks to his last novel “1984” (1948, publ. 1949), which became one of the main antiopian books of the twentieth century. The society depicted by the author is based on the total non-freedom of personality, propaganda and open violence-the victorious, according to the Gorky and Terrible prediction of the author, in the fictional state of Oceania by 1984, but the realities of the Soviet system of the 1930-1940s and other dictatorials are easily recognized in its appearance. modes - for, according to Orwell, all the dictatorships are standing each other ...
The famous satirical tale “Castard” (1945), dedicated to the topic of the devoted conquests of the revolution (later developed in 1984 ”), is also included in the real collection, the autobiographical novel“ Days in Burma ”(1934) is tough and mocking and mocking The exposure of a romantic myth of European civilization, bearing the light of the colonized peoples of the East, and the novel Long live ficus! (1936), an ironic and sad narrative of how the poet John Comstock declared war on a business god, refusing to live for money worthy of social status and other philistine values ​​(the symbol of which he considered the ficus on the windowsill), and about that about that , what it led to