George Orwell - Tragédia Burmában - A fikusz and az Antikrisztus

The young George Orwell, then still under the name Eric Arthur Blair, traveled back to India in the absence of a university scholarship to work as a deputy inspector in the Burmese colonial police from 1922, thus ensuring his livelihood and the expansion of his life experiences - which would affect his entire oeuvre. However, by 1927, he was completely disgusted with the British colonial policy, and therefore left the organization. He expressed his experiences here in his first work of fiction, which sharply criticized the system of British colonialism, the novel Tragédia Burmán, published in 1934. His hero, Flory, is a foreshadowing of 1984's Winston. He lacks heroic character traits, yet rejects hypocrisy and takes his struggles to the end in the borderline situation of the meeting between the dying colonial empire and the enslaved Burmese population. The novel was the only legally published Orwell work in Hungary until 1989.
The Ficus and the Antichrist is Orwell's second novel written in 1935. Its young hero, Gordon Comstock, leaves his promising and successful job at the "New Albion" advertising agency and works as a salesman in a shabby antique store, switching to a much more modest way of life. The only desire of the rebellious Comstock is to become a recognized poet and to finally be able to break free from the tyranny of the financial world and write his great work: The Pleasures of London. The novel follows the man's antics through exciting twists and bitter realizations all the way to the absurd conclusion. The everyday figure who faces the world of money and advertising and struggles alone will seem familiar to Orwell's readers, and the writer's social sensitivity and sharp social criticism are clearly outlined.