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Автор: Bradford Richard
Название: Orwell
ISBN: 9781448217687
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Биографии деятелей литературы

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

Политика и политический строй

Сравнительная политология

ISBN-10: 1448217687
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.65 кг.
Дата издания: 23.01.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 162 x 241 x 29
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: A man of our times
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Поставляется из: Англии
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A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings.

As one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century, the 70th anniversary of George Orwells death in 2020 offers an opportunity to assess his relevance today.

Despite the commonplace view that Animal Farm was aimed exclusively at Stalinist Russia, it was far more broadly focused and the similarities between aspects of the novel and Trumps America are obvious. Not only the parallels with the current President, but also by those who feel that his cult of personality is a mandate for collective nastiness. Doublethink features in Nineteen Eighty Four and it is the forerunner to Fake News.

Aside from Orwells importance as a political theorist and novelist his life in its own right is a beguiling narrative. His family was caught between upper middle-class complacency and uncertainty, and Orwells time at Prep School and as a scholarship boy at Eton caused him to despise the class system that spawned him despite finding himself unable to fully detach himself from it.

His life thereafter mirrored the history of his country; like many from his background he devoted himself to socialism as a salve to his conscience. He died at the point when Britains status as an Imperial and world power had waned.

An interest in him endures, principally because it is difficult to differentiate between the man who recorded the terrible events of the depression and the Spanish Civil War as an observer and the fiction writer who used literature to predict grim possibilities and diagnose horribly endemic inclinations. No other British writer of the 20th century has blended ideas, political commentary and literary art in such a manner.

For an author whose work has been regarded as the most important in terms of the turbulent years of the mid-20th century and who eroded the boundaries between literature, journalism and political commentary, there have been relatively few attempts to present a vibrant portrait of the man behind the writings. Fifteen years (closer to eighteen when this book appears) is a long time for the absence of a life of one of one of the best-known authors of the twentieth century.

Orwell, Bradford Richard