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Orwell: A Celebration de George Orwell

Orwell: A Celebration: Oberon Modern Plays

Autor George Orwell Adaptat de Dominic Cavendish
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iun 2009
Dominic Cavendish's acclaimed monologue adaptation of George Orwell's Coming up for Air - first seen at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008 - forms the first half of an unprecedented theatrical homage to Orwell created to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the novel and the 60th anniversary of his masterwork Nineteen Eighty-Four.

As well as placing two of his best-loved essays - Shooting an Elephant and A Hanging - in a theatrical context, Cavendish has distilled The Ministry of Love interrogation scenes from 1984 into a short, sharp, shocking vignette of a man's inhumanity to man. Together they demonstrate the enduring power and range of Orwell's writing, its observational clarity, bracing humour and political intensity.

Orwell: A Celebration was in production at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in June 2009.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781840029314
ISBN-10: 1840029315
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 130 x 210 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Oberon Books
Seria Oberon Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

George Orwell (1903-1950), born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, British India, was one of the twentieth century's most influential writers and political thinkers. Educated at Eton College, he chose not to attend university, instead joining the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. His experiences there left him deeply critical of imperialism, prompting his resignation and inspiring works such as Burmese Days.Returning to England, Orwell lived among the poor in London and Paris, experiences he later chronicled in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). Throughout his life, he sought to understand the realities of poverty, injustice, and political oppression through firsthand experience. He also fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Republican forces, where witnessing political infighting and totalitarian practices profoundly shaped his views on authoritarianism.Orwell's clear, direct prose and unwavering commitment to truth earned him a lasting reputation as both a novelist and essayist. His allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) exposed the corruption of revolutionary ideals under Soviet communism, while his final novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), presented a chilling vision of a society dominated by surveillance, censorship, propaganda, and the manipulation of language. Concepts such as "Big Brother," "thoughtcrime," and "Newspeak" have since entered everyday language as enduring warnings about the abuse of power.Despite suffering from tuberculosis, Orwell completed Nineteen Eighty-Four while living on the remote Scottish island of Jura. The novel was published just months before his death in London on 21 January 1950, aged forty-six.More than seventy-five years later, Orwell's work continues to resonate across the world. His writing remains a powerful defence of intellectual honesty, freedom of thought, and freedom of expression, reminding readers that democracy and liberty depend upon the courage to question authority, resist propaganda, and defend objective truth.

Recenzii

“Orwell is the most influential political writer of the twentieth century…He gives us a gritty, personal example of how to engage as a writer in politics.” –New York Review of Books

“[Orwell] evolved, in his seemingly offhand way, the clearest and most compelling English prose style this century…But of course he was more than just a great writer. We need him today because [of] his passion for the truth.” –The Sunday Times (London)

“Had Orwell lived to a full term, he might well have gone on to become the greatest modern literary critic in the language. But he lived more than long enough to make writing about politics a branch of the humanities, setting a standard of civilized response to the intractably complex texture of life.” –The New Yorker

“The real reason we read Orwell is because his own fault-line, his fundamental schism, his hybridity, left him exceptionally sensitive to the fissure–which is everywhere apparent–between what ought to be the case and what actually is the case. He says the unsayable.” –Financial Times

“Orwell was the conscience of his generation.” –V. S. Pritchett