2 “alternative facts” – Meet the Press, NBC, January 22, 2017.

3 “an apocalyptical codex” – Anthony Burgess, 1985 (Arrow, 1980), p. 51. Энтони Бёрджесс. 1985 / пер. А. Комаринец. – М.: АСТ, 2015. 320 с.

4 “for a novel that is not designed” – Fredric Warburg, All Authors Are Equal: The Publishing Life of Fredric Warburg 1936–1971 (Hutchinson & Co., 1973), p. 115.

5 “Orwell was successful” – Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 170.

6 “free intelligence” – “Charles Dickens”, March 11, 1940, The Complete Works of George Orwell XII: A Patriot After All 1940–1941 (Secker & Warburg, 2000), 597, p. 56.

7 “something shone through” – Arena: George Orwell (BBC, 1983–84).

8 “forced into becoming a pamphleteer” – Orwell, “Why I Write”, Gangrel, no. 4, Summer 1946, The Complete Works of George Orwell XVII: I Belong to the Left 1945 (Secker & Warburg, 2001), 3007, p. 319.

9 “It matters not what you think” – Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters (Basic Books, 2002), p. 211.

10 “old maids bicycling” – John Major, speech to Conservative Group for Europe, April 22, 1993.

11 “political thought disguised as a novel” – Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed, trans. Linda Asher (Faber & Faber, 1995), p. 224.

12 Bookshop shelves began filling up – see David Runciman, How Democracy Ends (Profile, 2018); Madeleine Albright, Fascism: A Warning (William Collins, 2018); Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Bodley Head, 2018); Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth (William Collins, 2018).

13 “a nonfiction bookend” – Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitaria nism (Penguin, 2017). Арендт Х. Истоки тоталитаризма / пер. И. В. Борисовой и др. – М.: ЦентрКом, 1996.

14 “I was asleep before” – The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu, 2017).

15 “If you pretend” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell V: The Road to Wigan Pier (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p 199. Оруэлл Дж. Дорога на Уиган-Пирс / пер. В. Домитеева. – М.: АСТ, 2018. 416 с.

16 “For me it’s like a Greek myth” – Author interview with Michael Radford, London, August 9, 2018.

17 “It’s a mirror” – Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, 1984 (Oberon Books, 2013), p. 21.

18 “Every time I read it” – Backlisted podcast, August 20, 2018.

Часть I

Глава 1

1 “We are living in a world” – Orwell, CW V, p. 158.

2 “I’m going to Spain” – Bernard Crick, George Orwell: A Life (Penguin, 1982), p. 312.

3 “History stopped in 1936” – Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War” The Complete Works of George Orwell XIII: All Propaganda Is Lies 1941 1942 (Secker&Warburg, 2001), 1421, p. 503. Оруэлл Дж. Вспоминая войну в Испании / пер. А. Зверев. – Grey Walls Press, 1989.

4 “Until I was about thirty” and “simply as a gruff-voiced elderly man —” Orwell, “Such, Such Were the Joys”, The Complete Works of George Orwell XIX: It Is What I Think 1947–1948 (Secker & Warburg, 2002), 3409, p. 379. Оруэлл Дж. Славно, славно мы резвились / пер. В. М. Домитеева, Н. А. Анастасьев, Н. Эристави. – М.: АСТ, 2020. 320 с.

5 “lower-upper-middle-class” – Orwell, CW V, p. 113.

6 “odious little snob” and “Your snobbishness” – Ibid., p. 128.

7 “Failure, failure, failure” – “Such, Such Were the Joys”, CW XIX, 3409, p. 382. Оруэлл Дж. Славно, славно мы резвились / пер. В. М. Домитеева, Н. А. Анастасьев, Н. Эристави. – М.: АСТ, 2020. 320 с.

8 “I was educated at Eton” – Orwell letter to Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, April 17, 1940, The Complete Works of George Orwell XI: Facing Unpleasant Facts 1937–1939 (Secker & Warburg, 2000), 613, p. 147.

9 “a boy with a permanent chip” – John Wilkes, quoted in Steven Wadhams, Remembering Orwell (Penguin, 1984), p. 11.

10 “he was more sardonic” – Christopher Eastwood, quoted in Wadhams, p. 17.

11 “In order to hate imperialism” – Orwell, CW V, p. 134.

12 “sentimental nonsense” Ibid. p. 137.

13 “an immense weight of guilt” – Ibid., p. 138.

14 “How can you write about the poor” – Jack Branthwaite, quoted in Wadhams, p. 84.

15 “in the process of rearranging himself ” – Crick, p. 221.

16 “no interest in Socialism” – Orwell, CW V, p. 139.

17 “It is a sort of world-within-a-world” – Ibid., p. 144.

18 “as a kind of penance” – Richard Rees, George Orwell: Fugitive from the Camp of Victory (Secker & Warburg, 1961), p. 29.

19 “shabby-genteel” – Orwell, CW V, p. 115.

20 “not thirty yet” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell IV: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 4. Оруэлл Дж. Да здравствует фикус! / пер. В. Домитеева. – М.: АСТ, 2017. 320 с.

21 “She knew well enough” – Orwell, CW V, p. 15.

22 “facecrime” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 65.

23 “a boot stamping” – Ibid., p. 280.

24 “I am afraid I have made” – Orwell letter to Jack Common, October 5, 1936, The Complete Works of George Orwell X: A Kind of Compulsion 1903–36 (Secker & Warburg, 2000), 327, p. 507.

25 “hate, fear and despise” – Orwell, CW V, p. 127.

26 “drives away the very people” – Ibid., p. 159.

27 “aeroplanes, tractors” – Ibid., p. 201.

28 “left-wingers of all complexions” – Ibid., p. 205.

29 “admirable propaganda” – H. J. Laski, Left News, March 1937, reprinted in Jeffrey Meyers (ed.), George Orwell: The Critical Heritage (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), p. 104.

30 “The truth is” – Victor Gollancz, preface to Left Book Club edition of The Road to Wigan Pier, CW V, p. 221.

31 “gut socialist” – Wadhams, p. 95.

32 “nothing else can save us” –