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Проза отчаяния и надежды: Роман, сказка, эссе. 1984. Скотный двор. Эссе
Роман «1984», вошедший в сборник, — одна из самых знаменитых антиутопий XX века. Со времени его создания в 1948 году он переведен на 62 языка и теперь впервые широко публикуется в нашей стране. В книгу вошли также сказка «Скотный двор» и ряд малоизвестных российскому читателю статей английского писателя.
429 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1949
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George Orwell
1,270 books50.9k followersEric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
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Ироничная и одновременно печальная история об осквернении идей социализма тиранами, рассказана автором в форме сказки, где в роли людей выступают животные заурядной британской фермы. Каждый зверь и каждая птица — социально-политический типаж, который мы можем встретить и в наше время, несмотря на то, что повествование отражает события в России первой половины ХХ века.
"Они переводили глаза со свиньи на человека, с человека на свинью и снова со свиньи на человека, но угадать, кто из них кто, было невозможно."
Ироничная и одновременно печальная история об осквернении идей социализма тиранами, рассказана автором в форме сказки, где в роли людей выступают животные заурядной британской фермы. Каждый зверь и каждая птица — социально-политический типаж, который мы можем встретить и в наше время, несмотря на то, что повествование отражает события в России первой половины ХХ века.
"Они переводили глаза со свиньи на человека, с человека на свинью и снова со свиньи на человека, но угадать, кто из них кто, было невозможно."
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