Regarded as the most influential English writer of the 20th century, Eric Arthur Blair (his pen name being George Orwell) also served as a great reporter. At this time he wrote important works such as Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier.

However, after World War II, George Orwell would publish his two most important works: Animal Farm and 1984, where totalitarian and controlling systems are touched upon as a result of the events of this highly troubled time.

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(Pseudonym Eric Blair; Motihari, India, 1903 - London, 1950) British writer. He studied at Eton College and later became part of the English Imperial Police in Asia, an experience that led him to write Days in Burma (1934). He lived for several years in Paris and in London, where he knew poverty; It was from this difficult period of his life that his novel Sin Blanca was born in Paris and London (1933).

His experiences as a collaborator of the republicans in the Spanish Civil War (Orwell was a socialist) were collected in his interesting book Tribute to Catalonia (1938). During World War II he was part of the Home Guard and appeared on English radio. In 1943 he entered the newsroom of the Tribune newspaper, and then regularly collaborated on the Observer. In this period he wrote many of his essays.

In general, all his work, including this first stage and the subsequent dystopian satires, reflected his political and moral positions, as they underscored man's struggle against the social rules established by political power. His most popular titles are Rebellion on the Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), fictions in which he described a new type of society controlled wholly by bureaucratic and political methods. Like Aldous Huxley's A Happy World (1932), or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), both are masterpieces of the 20th century genre of anti-utopian literature.

MORE IMPORTANT WORKS

Rebelion on the farm

One thousand nine hundred eighty-four (1984)