Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.
Considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote fiction, polemical journalism, literary criticism and poetry. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945)—they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. His 1938 book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, together with numerous essays on politics, literature, language and culture, are widely acclaimed.
Orwell's influence on contemporary culture, popular and political, continues decades after his death. Several of his neologisms, along with the term "Orwellian"—now a byword for any totalitarian or manipulative social phenomenon opposed to a free society—have entered the vernacular.
First published in 1949, George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" has lost none of the impact with which it first hit readers. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101.
人类必然会疯癫到这种地步,即不疯癫也只是另一种形式的疯癫。 ——帕斯卡尔 1984是不凡的一年。它是乔治•奥威尔的反乌托邦力作《1984》里,故事发生的背景时间。同在这一年,堪称20世纪末最伟大的思想家的福柯死于艾滋病。在同一段时间读了两人的书,又偶然...
评分最近断断续续在看乔治奥威尔的《一九八四》,别人问我它是什么书的时候,我会很严肃地和他们说:这是一本很恐怖的书。 说它是恐怖之书不是说这书写的是恐怖故事,而是让你看了以后你会觉得不寒而栗,你会庆幸自己暂时没有生活在那样的氛围之中。 单看我的这题目吧,...
评分自从一九九零年夏天来美,身不由己一直有国难归。去年十月,有友人约我从华盛顿回北京去讲学,我一口就答应了。 八年中,多少至亲好友一个接一个谢世了。远一些的不说,前年六月,董乐山从北京寄来《汪曾祺悄然归去》的剪报。曾祺和我相知六十多年,九零年夏我离京前曾到他家...
评分再看了一遍《一九八四》。是在对自己提醒。每一天过去,困囿在自己的小情绪里,其中有多少关乎这个世界的命运呢。没有。每一天过去,偶尔升起的失落感幸福感那么隆重,沉沦其中,似乎就可以称之为生命的全部了。欢喜,悲伤,其实真的有多少关乎人类的命运关于未来的人类呢。没...
评分最近断断续续在看乔治奥威尔的《一九八四》,别人问我它是什么书的时候,我会很严肃地和他们说:这是一本很恐怖的书。 说它是恐怖之书不是说这书写的是恐怖故事,而是让你看了以后你会觉得不寒而栗,你会庆幸自己暂时没有生活在那样的氛围之中。 单看我的这题目吧,...
看完了。。。为什么结局是这样。。。
评分毕业论文写这个作死。封面好看。
评分到现在我依然坚信政治活动于人类的进步或是美好事物而言几乎在起着反作用,曾经一度我一直在思考为什么人们会坚持不懈的坚持着这些让世界变得不美好的事情,后来我才知道,人类就是不美好的,对于这个世界人类确实是污点般的存在,我们与所谓美好相距甚远,所以说那些追寻美好事物的人们可能才是“异类”,而这些追名逐利追求权力,控制等等的人们,其实就是人类本身。
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评分这本书看了好久,我果然对那种沉重的政治主题的书有点抵制心理,虽然这是本公认的好书。
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