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Eric
Blair was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari (India) in a family of
British commercial agent.
Orwell
taught at St.. Cyprian, in 1917, received a nominal stipend and until
1921 attended Eton College. From 1922 to 1927 he served in the colonial
police in Burma, then had lived in the UK and Europe, nourishing
themselves with odd jobs, but then began to write fiction and
journalism. Since 1935, published under the pseudonym "George Orwell".
He is a
Member of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (book "Homage to Catalonia",
1938, essay "Remembering the war in Spain", 1943, published in full in
1953), which ran close to the manifestations of factional struggle among
the Left.
After returning from Spain,
Orwell
wrote a
book about the Spanish Civil War, but his longtime publisher Victor
Gollancz refused to publish
it,
referring to the fact that the book may be harmful to the struggle
against fascism.
Orwell wrote
numerous essays and articles critical social studies and cultural
nature. During the Second World War
he
led an anti-fascist program on BBC.
The writer died in London of tuberculosis January 21, 1950.
Literary career
During
the civil war in Spain, Orwell fought on the side of Republicans in the
ranks of parts POUM.
He
wrote a documentary novel "Homage to Catalonia" (born "Homage to
Catalonia")
in
1936 about
this events.
In the novel "Animal Farm" (1945)
he
showed
degeneration of revolutionary principles
and programs.
Roman-dystopia "1984" (1949) was a continuation of "Animal Farm". Orwell
depicted a possible future world society as a totalitarian hierarchical
system based on sophisticated physical and spiritual bondage, pierced by
a general fear and hatred. In this book the first time sounded familiar
expression "Big Brother is watching you," and introduced became widely
known terms "doublethink", "thoughtcrime" and "Newspeak".
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