George Orwell Now!

George Orwell remains an iconic figure today - even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people's lives - and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden's revelations. The word «Orwellian» is constantly in the media - used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean «displaying outspoke ...