Barnyard. Essay

The book includes not only Orwell’s legendary story-parable “Animal Farm”, but also essays from different years – “Literature and Totalitarianism”, “Writers and Leviathan”, “Notes on Nationalism” and others. What attracts the reader to the fiction and journalistic prose of this author, forbidden in totalitarian countries? First of all, the most pressing problems of political and cultural life of the 40s of the 20th century, which continue to be relevant today. As well as objectivity in assessing events and the author’s bright individuality, multiplied by true literary skill.