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.
——读奥威尔的《一九八四》 作为一部反极权主义的小说,《一九八四》以一个虚拟的大洋国为背景,将笔触对准了大洋国令人窒息的政治生活。有人说,小说是以斯大林的苏俄时代为摹本,我倒是认为,它是把历史上所有极权国家的特征都集中在一起了。 统治大洋国的是一个名为“老大...
評分非常棒,I would like to read it on smooth creamy paper…
评分到現在我依然堅信政治活動於人類的進步或是美好事物而言幾乎在起著反作用,曾經一度我一直在思考為什麼人們會堅持不懈的堅持著這些讓世界變得不美好的事情,後來我纔知道,人類就是不美好的,對於這個世界人類確實是汙點般的存在,我們與所謂美好相距甚遠,所以說那些追尋美好事物的人們可能纔是“異類”,而這些追名逐利追求權力,控製等等的人們,其實就是人類本身。
评分有一種很悲涼的感覺。
评分畢業論文寫這個作死。封麵好看。
评分不經曆的人不會懂。
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