1984 trans. V.P. Golyshev

The novel "1984" is the pinnacle of George Orwell's creativity. It depicts a society where people are clearly divided into classes: the upper, privileged, party elite; the middle, who have no rights, constantly under the gaze of cameras and listening devices, deprived of communication and emotions, performing mechanical work of regularly rewriting history, lacking in everything; and the lower — akin to the proletariat. In this society, any thought is eradicated; a person lives in fear of punishment, which will inevitably follow for any transgression. Such a society destroys all humanity in a person. To make a person think less, it is simplified...