Greetings from the age of uniformity, the age of loneliness, the age of Big Brother, the age of doublethink," writes Winston Smith, the rebel, the thought criminal, in his diary, who refuses to admit that 2x2 can be three or five according to the will of the Party. 1984 an eternal reminder of the totalitarian powers of the 20th century, but at the same time a cruel satire and a warning for the future or even the present, since we can still feel the legacy of dictatorships in our guts. In 1948, sick and disillusioned, Orwell created a world of novels that captivates the world with its chilling reality. reader, and although we can replace many things with the real figures, ideas, and institutions of history, the writer's fantasy is the most impressive in this novel.
An English farm, Mr. Jones's "Major", is the setting for Orwell's other best-known work, Animal Farm. One day, the animals, under the leadership of the pigs, overthrow the rule of Man and live their lives, which at first seemed free and cheerful, and then became increasingly gloomy, led by a male pig named Napoleon, in an increasingly harsh dictatorship. Orwell's work written in 1943-44 - to which the author gave the ironic subtitle "Fairy Tale" - is actually a satire of the Stalinist era, but its message is still depressingly relevant to this day.
Homage to Catalonia is a basic book for the other two great works. In 1936, the author traveled to Spain with sincere enthusiasm to make a report on the heroic struggle of the republicans, and upon arrival he joined the militia, only to have to flee from the Spanish communists reinforced by Soviet forces a few months later. In this work, Orwell returns to his journalistic roots after his initial literary successes and reports on the Spanish Civil War with shocking force.