di Orwell
• Is socialist
• He took part in the Spanish Civil War and he wrote Homage to Catalonia
• His mast important works are Animal Farm (It refers to the communism of Stalin) and 1984
1984
• It is a dystopia
• Described with the canons of realism but not real
• Negative description
• Set in the future
• Orwell wrote the novel in 1948
• Criticizes the Soviet dictatorship, but in general all dictatorships
The action takes place in the near future (1984 in fact); the world is divided into three immense super states: Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia.
