1984. Cattle yard. Long live the ficus!
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1984. Cattle yard. Long live the ficus!
19.99 €
"1984" - a kind of antipode of the second great dystopia of the XX century - "Oh Wonderful New World" by Aldous Huxley. What, in fact, is more terrible: the "society of consumption" driven to absurdity - or the "society of ideas" driven to absoluteness? According to Orwell, there is and can be nothing more terrible than total unfreedom....
"Animal Farm" is a parable full of humor and sarcasm. Can a humble farm become a symbol of a totalitarian society? Of course it can. But... how will this society be seen by its "citizens" - the animals condemned to slaughter? "Long live the ficus!" - bitter, ironic novel, largely autobiographical. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, a failed writer, forced to serve in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a real talent for composing slogans, but his work inspires him with disgust, seems a caricature of literary creativity. He despises material values and the vulgarity of everyday life, symbolized by the ficus on the window. In all his failures he blames money, but proud poverty only leads him into the depths of depression ... Comstock needs to realize that in addition to high art there are simple pleasures, and in the desire to earn money there is nothing shameful. What will save him?
"Animal Farm" is a parable full of humor and sarcasm. Can a humble farm become a symbol of a totalitarian society? Of course it can. But... how will this society be seen by its "citizens" - the animals condemned to slaughter? "Long live the ficus!" - bitter, ironic novel, largely autobiographical. The protagonist is Gordon Comstock, an unrecognized poet, a failed writer, forced to serve in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a real talent for composing slogans, but his work inspires him with disgust, seems a caricature of literary creativity. He despises material values and the vulgarity of everyday life, symbolized by the ficus on the window. In all his failures he blames money, but proud poverty only leads him into the depths of depression ... Comstock needs to realize that in addition to high art there are simple pleasures, and in the desire to earn money there is nothing shameful. What will save him?
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- All books in the series Neoclassic.