Small collected works

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, along with “We” E. Zamyatin and “” The wonderful new world ”O. Huxley, became one of the main entiutopia 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 violent suppression of any dissent, the place and time of the novel is the fictional country of Oceania in 1984, but in the appearance of this state it is easy The realities of the Soviet system of the 1930-1940s and other dictatorial regimes are recognized-for, according to Orwell, all the dictatorships stand each other ...
The famous satirical fairy tale “Castard” (1945), dedicated to the topic of devoted conquests of the revolution (later developed in 1984 ”), is also included in this collection, 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 the fact that What it led to