Министерство правды. Как роман «1984» стал культурным кодом поколений

⁸⁴ “the vision of a boot crashing down” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, CW XII, 763, p. 396. «видение наступающего сапога», Оруэлл Дж. Лев и Единорог. Эссе, статьи, рецензии. – М.: Московская школа политических исследований, 2003. 480 с.

⁸⁵ “a warning” – London, The Iron Heel, p. 4. Лондон Дж. Железная пята / пер. Р. М. Гальперина. – М.: Астрель, 2012. 320 с.

⁸⁶ “The diary would be reduced to ashes” —Orwell, CW IX, p. 29.

⁸⁷ “in our own lifetime” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 162.

⁸⁸ “leaving a few records behind” – Ibid., p. 163.

⁸⁹ “daringly opens up” – Icke and Macmillan, p. 13.

⁹⁰ “Orwell is much more optimistic” – Earl G. Ingersoll (ed.), Waltzing Again (Ontario Review Press, 2006), p. 116.

⁹¹ “have a framing device” and “Optimism is relative” – Jesse Kinos-Goodwin, “We are reading 1984 wrong, according to Margaret Atwood”, CBC, May 9, 2017.

⁹² “We are, as a people” – Wells letter to George Bernard Shaw, April 22, 1941.

⁹³ “the clearest insistence” – Wells letter to British Weekly, June 26, 1939, quoted in Mackenzie, p. 420.

⁹⁴ “By some time in 1944” – Orwell letter to Rayner Heppenstall, August 24, 1943, CW XV, 2247, p. 206.

⁹⁵ “I should think” – Eileen Blair letter to Orwell, March 21, 1945, Belong, CW XVII, 2638, p. 99.

⁹⁶ “On no occasion” – Orwell letter to L. F. Rushbrook Williams, September 24, 1945, CW XV, 2283, p. 251.

⁹⁷ “He is transparently honest” – Rushbrook Williams, confidential annual report on George Orwell, August 7, 1943.

⁹⁸ On the day he left – see Elizabeth Knights’ account in interview transcript for Arena: George Orwell.

⁹⁹ “for the first time, I saw” – Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War”, CW XIII, 1421, p. 503. Оруэлл Дж. Вспоминая войну в Испании / пер. А. Зверев. – Grey Walls Press, 1989.

¹⁰⁰ “the very concept of objective truth”, “controls not only the future” – Ibid., p. 504.

¹⁰¹ “that shifting phantasmagoric world” – Ibid., p. 505.

¹⁰² “truly grave” – Emperor Hirohito, October 26, 1943.

¹⁰³ “If you are a man” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 282.

¹⁰⁴ “The nightmare feeling” – Orwell, “The Last Man in Europe”, CW XV, 2377, p. 368.

¹⁰⁵ “Is it perhaps childish” – Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War”, CW XIII, 1421, p. 505. Оруэлл Дж. Вспоминая войну в Испании / пер. А. Зверев. – Grey Walls Press, 1989.

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¹ “I know that I have” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, “Letter to Stalin” (1931), in Soviet Heretic, trans. Mirra Ginsberg (Quartet, 1991), p. 305. Замятин Е. И. Сочинения. – Мюнхен: A. Niemanis Buchvertrieb und Verlag, 1986. Т. 4. С. 310–314.

² “I am interested in that kind of book” – Orwell letter to Gleb Struve, February 17, 1944, CW XVI, 2421, p. 98.

³ “it is not a book of the first order” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 13.

⁴ “partly plagiarised” – Orwell letter to Warburg, November 22, 1948, CW XIX, 3495, p. 471.

⁵ “proves that these ideas” – Alex M. Shane, The Life and Works of Evgenij Zamjatin (University of California Press, 1968), p 140.

⁶ “the idea of 1984” – Isaac Deutscher, “1984– The Mysticism of Cruelty”, in Raymond Williams (ed.), George Orwell: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1974), p. 120.

⁷ “look out for this book” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, January 24, 1947, CW XIX, 3158, p. 26.

⁸ “my most jesting” – Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1922), in Soviet Heretic, p. 4. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

⁹ “robs people of individuality” – Zamyatin, “Contemporary Russian Literature” (1918), in Soviet Heretic, p. 44. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

¹⁰ “the victory of the many” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, trans. Natasha Randall (Vintage, 2007), p. 42. Замятин Е. Мы. – М.: АСТ, 2018.

¹¹ “sharp, black, piercing” – Ibid., p. 191.

¹² “festive rockets” – Ibid., p. 193.

¹³ “When you are moving fast” – Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters” (1923), in Soviet Heretic, pp. 111–112. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 3. Лица. – М.: Русская книга, 2004.

¹⁴ “I never explained” – Shane, p. 92.

¹⁵ “mathematically infallible happiness” – Zamyatin, We, p. 3. Замятин Е. Мы. – М.: АСТ, 2018.

¹⁶ “Every station bookstall” – Brian Moynahan, Comrades 1917: Russia in Revolution (Little, Brown, 1992), p. 5.

¹⁷ “like a machine” – Ibid., p. 119.

¹⁸ “ancient sickness” – Ibid., p. 67.

¹⁹ “a rather weak and episodic plot” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 14.

²⁰ “machine-equal” – Zamyatin, We, p. 158. Замятин Е. Мы. – М.: АСТ, 2018.

²¹ “Because reason should win” – Ibid., p. 203.

²² “one of the literary curiosities” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 13.

²³ “Perhaps the most interesting” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1922), in Soviet Heretic, p. 4. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

²⁴ “Gogol was a friend” – Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1924), in Soviet Heretic, p. 5.