George Orwell

”Burmese Days” is an early novel by Orwell, in which the future great English writer enters into a kind of literary confrontation with his no less brilliant predecessor, Kipling. The life of the British colonists in Burma, united in a sense of superiority over the natives, but internally divided, exhausted by snobbery and petty strife. The fate of the local inhabitants, who seem to have become Europeanized,...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a bitter, ironic novel. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, failed writer, forced to work in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a real talent for composing slogans, but his work inspires him with disgust, it seems to be a caricature of literary creativity. He despises material values and the vulgarity of the everyday way of life, the symbol...

These are notes on the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1937, in which Orwell took part. The notes consist, as it were, of two parts: the story of an eyewitness participant and an analytical analysis. The author shows the war in an unusual perspective. There is no heroism in it, no clear goal and ideological orientation. Orwell describes in detail the natural benevolence of the Spaniards, their tolerance...

"Piękna powieść opowiadająca o zmierzchłych czasach kolonializmu. Jej trwałą wartością pozostaje obraz dalekiego, egzotycznego kraju o starej kulturze i tradycji, obcego i niezrozumiałego dla garstki białych pracowników małej placówki w dżungli, zmuszonych do życia w zabójczym klimacie, w całkowitej izolacji, pozbawionych widoków na przyszłość. Główny bohater ulega wprawdzie urokowi Birmy, jest z nią...