Existential motives of G. Orwell’s novel “Coming up for air”

The novel by the English writer G. Orwell “Coming Up for Air”, written in 1939, is still relevant today. On its pages, the protagonist G. Bowling plunges into an existential crisis. This is a crisis not only of an individual, but of an entire generation. The starting point of the crisis is the First World War. The harbinger of the second world war is a powerful factor for the final shaping of the existential crisis. The author of the article analyzes in detail the existential motives that lead the hero-narrator to the inner deadening, and concludes that modern society lives the same problems as in G. Orwell’s lifetime, and, therefore, there can be similar consequences. Reading the novel today, one can argue that these are the motives not even of a generation, but of the entire Western civilization, to which Russia has joined. This allows to see life’s mistakes and adjust the future.