Take a breath

The name of George Orwell (1903-1950) glorified the anti-utopia "1984", but he wrote more traditional psychological prose. The hero of the novel "Glum Air" (1939) is the insurance agent George Bowling, forty -five years old, the most ordinary person. But the First World War has split his life into two parts - before and after. A provincial childhood, with its little joys like fishing, was far behind. "Who would I become, do not break up the war? I don’t know, but not what it happened. If a person miraculously survived on this massacre, in his thoughts he certainly began to ferment. " And on the next breakdown of times, in the foreboding of a new war, George Bowling unbearably wanted to visit the treasured pond, in which, as he recall, he was full of incredibly large fish