George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a left-wing English author and journalist.
Life
Noted as a novelist and critic as well as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language political essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels he wrote after World War II critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published towards the end of his life.
George Orwell branded Aleksey Tolstoy, along with contemporary Ilya Ehrenburg, as a “literary prostitute” whose freedom of expression was denied by Soviet totalitarianism.
See also
Further reading
- Mark Weber: Historical Revisionism and the Legacy of George Orwell, 1985
- Jeff Riggenbach: Orwell – The War Commentaries, 1986
- Richard A. Widmann:
- George Orwell, 1996
- Remembering George Orwell (1903 – 1950), 2014
