BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ORWELL George Orwell

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BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ORWELL

George Orwell (George Orwell) (1903 -1950), English writer. Orwell is a pseudonym of Eric Blair (Erik Blair) was born on June 25, 1903, in Bengal. His father, a British colonial officer, held a minor post in the Indian customs office.

A training and a career prior Orwell was trained in the school of St. Cyprian, in 1917 received a scholarship and until 1921 attended Eaton College. In 1922 -1927 years he served in the colonial police in Burma. In 1927, when he returned home on vacation, decided to resign and start writing. Early - and not only documentary - book Orwell's largely autobiographical. After wandering through the English villages, Orwell receives the material for his first book "Dog's life in Paris and London (1933). "The days in Burma" (1934) largely reflects the Oriental period of his life. Like the author, the hero of the book "Let blooms aspidistra" (1936) works as an assistant bookseller, and the heroine of the novel "the Daughter of a priest" (1935) teaches in seedy private schools. In 1936, the Club left the book sent Orwell's in the North of England to study the life of the unemployed in the working quarters. A direct result of this trip became angry documentary book "the Road to Wigan-pier (1937), where Orwell, to the displeasure of their employers, criticized the English socialism. In addition, on this trip he acquired a strong interest to the works of mass culture, which is reflected in his classic essay "the Art of Donald Mc. Guil" and "the Weeklies for boys".

The Spain war A civil war broke out in Spain, caused the second crisis in the life of George Orwell. Always acting in accordance with their convictions, Orwell went to Spain as a journalist, but immediately on arrival in Barcelona, joined the partisan detachment of the Marxist labour party of the POUM, fought on the Aragon front, was seriously wounded. In may 1937, he took part in the battle for Barcelona on the side of the POUM and the anarchists against the Communists. Persecuted by the secret police of the Communist government, Orwell fled from Spain. In his account of the trenches of the civil war - "Memory of Catalonia" (1939) - it reveals the intentions of the Stalinists to seize power in Spain. The Spanish experience has not released Orwell throughout life. In the last pre-war novel "For a breath of fresh air" (1940) he denounces the erosion of values and norms in the modern world.

The real prose George Orwell believed that the real prose should be «transparent as glass» , and he wrote very clearly. Samples of what he thought the main advantages of prose, you can see in his essay "the Murder of an elephant" (Russian translation 1989) and in particular in the essay "Politics and the English language", where he argues that dishonesty in politics and language negligence are inextricably linked. The writer's duty Orwell seen in that, in order to defend the ideals of liberal socialism and the struggle with the totalitarian tendencies, threatened era. In 1945 he wrote his famed "animal Farm" - a satire on the Russian revolution, and the collapse generated by its hopes, in the form of a parable tells about how, in the same farm became charge of the animals. His latest book is the novel "1984", dystopia, in which Orwell with fear and anger draws a totalitarian society. Orwell died in London on January 21, 1950.

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