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...
評分朋友曾经问,看过1984最大的感受是什么?很多人说恐惧,可是我却只感受到刻骨的,无法用泪水倾泄的悲伤。 在黄昏的小屋里,他和她从缱绻后的睡梦中醒来,窗外夕阳的光芒投射在她的身上,外面有一个洗衣妇人的歌声和尘世中种种车来人往。那样的时刻,那样的爱情,它真实地存在...
評分拿到这一版的《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...
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...
非常棒,I would like to read it on smooth creamy paper…
评分非常棒,I would like to read it on smooth creamy paper…
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20th Anniversary ed
评分看完瞭。。。為什麼結局是這樣。。。
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