Mr. Orwell.

It's been 60 years since Orwell wrote 1984, the classic which showed us the Big Brother, ubiquitous oppressor of a totalitarian society with cameras controlling everyone's moves.

Orwell, a pseudonym that Eric Blair adopted as a writer, died because he couldn't contain the love for his work. He was sick, with a tuberculosis that in his days was fatal, and went find isolation to finish writing 1984. As soon as he was done, the recognition was immediate, public and critics. However, the efforts killed him at 46. The first lines are classic, often quoted, It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13.

One of the first ones to recognize his talent was V.S. Pritchett, a NY Times writer, who classified Orwell as the best man of letters of his time. The first paragraph of his criticism, published in June 1949, goes something like "1984 goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin, opening the sores; hope has died in Mr Orwell’s wintry mind, and only pain is known. I do not think I have ever read a novel more frightening and depressing; and yet, such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing and withering indignation that it is impossible to put down"

Orwell was a versatile intellectual. In his work, abbreviated by his early death, fulgurates a notorious essay regarding the art of writing. He condensed his points in 6 advices:

- Never use a metaphor - like Ill shine like the sun - that you are used to reading;

- Never use a big word when a small one can substitute it;

- If it is possible to cut a word in your text, do it;

- Never use passive form when you can use active;

- Never write a sentence in other language, or a scientific expression, jargon, when you can express it simply.

- Break any of these rules when you find it necessary.