A breath of air

George Orwell (1903–1950) is an English writer and publicist, who became famous thanks to the most famous novel in the dystopian genre "1984", where he depicted a terrible totalitarian society of the future, as well as the story "Animal Farm", which in an allegorical form tells about the times of formation USSR

However, Orwell's other work is no less interesting and relevant for today, in particular the novel "A Breath of Air", which is a kind of prequel to the famous "1984". It tells about the existential crisis of an ordinary representative of the English middle class against the background of the general crisis on the eve of the Second World War. From this novel, you can learn about the prerequisites and see the first sprouts of the terrible world described in "1984", because according to the main character of the work, the destruction of the former cozy world began on the eve of the First World War, continued and intensified after its end, and, obviously, will end The Second World War is the last, eternal, endless.

A midlife crisis creeps up suddenly and imperceptibly, and then suddenly it turns out that most of the years of your adult life are actually devoid of any meaning, and the happiest period is hidden in the past, in your childhood, which you can no longer reach and the memories of which are overwhelming you wash

This is how the hero of the novel "A Breath of Air" feels when he realizes that something is wrong in his life, but in fact everything is wrong. This prompts him to embark on an imaginary and real journey to the world of his childhood - the only place where he was once happy. Of course, such journeys to the origins of one's former life and one's former identity are almost never successful.

Meanwhile, the world hovered over the precipice of a new great war, there are only a few months left of the former peaceful life - huge black bombers are increasingly flying in the sky, heralding irreversible, rapid and terrible changes.