Как, наверное, уже понятно из моего блога - я очень уважаю этого автора, мне нравится его... как бы это сказать:
посыл. И я в собственном мышлении стараюсь такому же посылу следовать. При этом, Орвелл наговорил за свою жизнь кучу глупостей и во многом оказался не прав (особенно в конкретных политических прогнозах - его военный дневник это сплошные попадания пальцем в небо), но тем не менее общий посыл всегда был правильным. Он из тех людей, которые что называется зрят в корень, ошибаясь в частностях. Мне это дико нравится, сама не знаю почему, хотя очень часто с ним не соглашаюсь. Конечно, как всякий мега-популярный писатель, он подвергся массе искажений, которые уже теперь никто никогда не исправит, но можно попытаться. Вот что он
писал читателям о своем последнем романе и мировом бестселлере "1984" - это особенно актуально для (анти)советского читателя. Через год он умер от чахотки.
Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in London by Seeker & Warburg on 8 June 1949 and in New York by Har court, Brace on 13 June 1949
158. Letter to Francis A. Henson (extract)
[Part of a letter, since lost, written on 16 June 1949 by Orwell to Francis A. Henson of the United Automobile Workers answering questions about Nineteen Eighty-Four. Excerpts from the letter were published in Life, 25 July 1949, and the New York Times Book Review, 31 July 1949; the following is an amalgam of these.]
My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralised economy is liable and which have already been partly realised in Communism and Fascism. I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe (allowing of course for the fact that the book is a satire) that something resembling it could arrive. I believe also that totalitarian ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere, and I have tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences. The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasise that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
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160. Letter to Vernon Richards
Cranham Lodge
Cranham
Gloucester
22 June 1949
Dear Vernon,
Thanks so much for your letter, & the press-cuttings. Yes, I got the copy of the memorial number (1) all right.
Sell as many photos as you can. It doesn't cost me anything, & is all advertisement. I had a lot of fuss with Life, who wanted to send interviewers here etc, but I put them off because that kind of thing tires me too much. I am afraid some of the US Republican papers have tried to use 1984 as propaganda against the Labour Party, but I have issued a sort of dementi (2) which I hope will be printed.
Yes, send me the list of questions & I'll do my best. You will understand that I cannot answer at great length. The more this issue is cleared up, the better.
I'd love to see you some time. But let me know when you're coming. (I think there are people coming the next 3 week-ends) so as not to clash with anyone else, & so that I can arrange abt a car.
Yours
George
(1) Freedom, 28 May 1949, which was devoted to the memory of Vernon Richards's wife, Marie Louise, who had died of pneumonia on 13 April 1949.
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