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.
拿到这一版的《1984》,还没有看到内容就已经感到些许悲哀。悲哀可能就来源于这句“日本著名作家村上春树以1Q84》向《1984》致敬”吧。这部“堪称世界文坛讽喻小说的不朽高峰和里程碑式力作。”竟然首先是以当代流行作家的作品为噱头来推荐,就好比我推荐《西游记》时用“七龙...
評分 評分爱国主义“名言”集萃——智者的思考是愚者的明灯 1.集中体现于政府的公权力,是决定社会状况的最重要因素了,它是最大的真善美与假恶丑的策源地和总闸门,社会的“技术中心”和“能量中心”;同时,……公权天性是恶棍,要公权能够低耗高效不作孽,只有“把统治者关进笼子里...
評分——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《1984》中有一个很小的细节,读到的时候我惊了一跳。 大洋国的外围党员每天早晨醒来之后,都要在电幕的监视下做一套体操。其中有一节“指尖碰脚趾”的动作,是温斯顿最痛恨的。每次一做这个动作,他都会“从脚踵到屁股感到一阵剧痛,最后常常又引起咳嗽的发作。”他原本正陷于...
war is rulers’ peace, ignorance is rulers’ strength
评分在國內如此大環境下,讀這本書,真是讓人後背一陣發涼。
评分這本書看瞭好久,我果然對那種沉重的政治主題的書有點抵製心理,雖然這是本公認的好書。
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。
评分看完瞭。。。為什麼結局是這樣。。。
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