什么是奥威尔

Orwell, George，原名Eric Arthur Blair。

英国小说家、散文家和评论家。1917（获奖学金）～1921年在伊顿公学读书，1922年到缅甸，担任印度皇家警察。由於认识到英帝国的统治违反缅甸人民的意愿，感到内疚，於1927年离开缅甸。他回到欧洲，自发地过着贫穷生活，根据生活经验，他写了《巴黎伦敦落魄记》（1933）。成为社会主义者。1936年去西班牙报导内战，并留下来参加共和军方面的民兵。他的战争经验写了《向加泰隆尼亚致敬》（1938），从此他一生畏惧共产主义。他的小说典型描写具有敏感、良知和多愁善感的孤立个人对苦难和不公正的社会环境的不满。他最着名的作品是反俄讽刺寓言小说《动物农庄》（1945）和《一九八四》（1949），极权主义的反面乌托邦，给他同时代和後来的读者广泛的影响。他的散文也受到人们的赞赏。他死於肺病。

1903～1950年

Orwell, George

British novelist, essayist, and critic. Instead of accepting a scholarship to a university, Orwell went to Burma to serve in the Indian Imperial Police 1922-27, an experience that changed him into a literary and political rebel. On returning to Europe, he lived in self-imposed poverty, gaining material for Down and Out in Paris and london (1933), and became a socialist. He went to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War and stayed to join the Republican militia. His war experiences, which gave him a lifelong dread of communism (he would later provide British intelligence services with lists of his fellow British communists), are recounted in Homage to Catalonia (1938). His novels typically portray a sensitive, conscientious, emotionally isolated individual at odds with an oppressive or dishonest social environment. His most famous works are the anti-Soviet satirical fable Animal Farm (1945), and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), a dystopic vision of totalitarianism whose influence was widely felt in the postwar decades. His literary essays are also admired. He died of tuberculosis.