George Orwell (1903-1950) was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair was a civil servant for the British government. In 1904 Orwell moved with his mother and sister to England where he remained until 1922. He began to write at an early age, and was even published in college periodicals, but he did not enjoy school. Orwell wrote about his unfavorable prep-school experiences in the essay Such Such were the Joys (1968).
Orwell failed to win a university scholarship and without the opportunity to continue his education he went to Bruma and served in the administration of the Indian Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927 when he resigned in part due to his growing dislike of British imperialism, a dislike he vocalized in his essays Shooting an Elephant (1950), and A Hanging (1931).
When Orwell returned to Europe he was in poor financial condition and worked low paying jobs in France and England. Finally, in 1928, he decided to become a professional writer. Starting in 1930 Orwell became a regular contributor to the New Adelphi, and in 1933 he assumed the name "George Orwell" by which he would become famous. For his first novel he used his recent experience with poverty as inspiration and wrote Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). While teaching in a private school he published his second major work, Burmese Days (1934). Two years later Orwell married Eileen O'Shaugnessy.
During the1930s Orwell had adopted the views of a socialist and traveled to Spain to report on their civil war. He took the side of the United Workers Marxist Party militia and fought alongside them, which earned him a wound in the neck. It was this war that made him hate communism in favor of the English brand of socialism. Orwell wrote a book on Spain, Homage to Catalonia, which was published in 1938.
During the second World War Orwell served as a sergeant in the Home Guard and also worked as a journalist for the BBC, Observer and Tribune, where he was literary editor from 1943 to 1945. It was toward the end of the war that he wrote Animal Farm, and when it was over he moved to Scotland.
It was Animal Farm that made finally Orwell prosperous. His other world wide success was Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Orwell said was written "to alter other people's idea of the kind of society they should strive after." Sadly Orwell never lived to see how successful it would become.
Eileen O'Shaugnessy, Orwell's wife died in 1945 and in 1949 he remarried to a woman named Sonia Browell. Orwell's second marriage was short-lived however, as he died from tuberculosis in London on January 21, 1950.
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,...
评分奥威尔在书中得出了一个必将到来的悲观结论,我始终不能明白,为什么多数人总是对此视而不见。 我对于1984的看法是:这是一部极为悲观的作品,那种绝望的悲观如同饥饿,寒冷或者肉体的痛楚,你以为用冷漠可以咬牙坚持过去,但结果只是一再证明自己的软弱无力。 造就那种悲观...
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...
评分——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...
中国人民是最强大的,我们生活最好,我们要解放美国,赤化全世界,坚决拥护共产党!
评分老大哥在看着我们
评分“文学和艺术不批判社会,就失去了文学和艺术的意义。”
评分双重思想、老大哥、犯罪停止、英社、现实控制、黑白、新话:抹杀过去,就连抹杀过去这种行为也被抹去;过去只能由记忆和记录决定,而党是决定记录和记忆的主宰; 而历史是如此的相似,历史在不停地轮回着,对于无产者,革命成功只不过是主子变了,其他东西、包括社会结构,统统未变,只是原来的上等人被迫成为; 最后,在党看来,思想的背叛同行为的背叛不会有任何区别;
评分Everybody in China who has been brain-washed by the barbaric communist party should read this novel.
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