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.