Mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-quatre

450 pages

French language

Published Nov. 3, 2021 by Agone.

ISBN:
978-2-7489-0446-8
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« Le pouvoir nous enseigne à rejeter l’évidence de nos yeux et de nos oreilles. C’est son commandement ultime, le plus essentiel. Winston sentit son cœur lui manquer à la pensée de la puissance démesurée qui était déployée contre lui, à la facilité avec laquelle n’importe quel intellectuel le remettrait à sa place avec des arguments subtils qu’il serait incapable de comprendre, et plus encore de contrer.

Et pourtant, il avait raison ! Ils avaient tort, il avait raison. Il fallait défendre les évidences, les platitudes, les vérités. Les truismes sont vrais, accrochons-nous à cela ! Le monde physique existe, ses lois ne changent pas. Les pierres sont dures, l’eau est liquide, tout objet lâché est attiré par le centre de la terre.

Avec le sentiment de s’adresser à O’Brien, et aussi d’énoncer un axiome important, Winston écrivit : La liberté est la liberté de dire que deux et deux …

192 editions

problematic but relevant

A lot to unpack in this book. The lead character (Winston) has some pretty misogynistic tendencies, and there's not a single female character in the book with any depth whatsoever. This can be explained to some extent by the fact that it was written in the 40s, and that Winston has been subject to psychological manipulation essentially since birth.

Problematic elements aside, this provides an interesting dive into the world of psychological warfare, which remains relevant to this day.

Review of '1984' on 'Goodreads'

This book really got me.
Overall, I think it is very well written. It's simple and complex at the same time. It does a superb reflection about authoritarianism and alerts for the less predictable mechanism of it. It also does a very good job showing how the masses take an important role in this reality and how fragile our democracies are. One of my favorites, for sure

Faut-il relire "Mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-quatre" ? --> OUI

Faut-il relire "Mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-quatre" ?
Ma réponse est clairement oui.
Et pour de bonnes raisons :

  • Cette édition est une meilleure traduction de l’œuvre originale
  • Le monde évolue et « Mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-quatre » n'a en rien perdu de son acuité. Il est même encore plus juste !
  • J’ai changé. J’ai trouvé dans cette relecture des thèmes, des passages qui m’ont échappé

De plus quelques vidéos récentes m’ont apporté des éclairages plus que très utiles

Alors lire 1984 en 2022 ?

George Orwell étire la réalité des régimes autoritaires pour en faire un régime absolu, total.
Alors oui l’Angsoc n’est …

Review of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' on 'Goodreads'

The contributions of this book are far too grand for me to go into all details here. To make it short, I believe that Orwell provided a fitting explanation of how individual thought is suppressed under totalitarian regimes. The principles of doublethink are also used in democratic states whenever it is politically necessary to hold two conflicting opinions. I even claim that it is a politician's most essential skill to perform this mental gymnastics convincingly.

However, this propaganda does not necesarrily manage to convince everybody. Regardless of the political system, it seems that generally, the people under its influence tend to root for it. But also regardless of the system, the capacity for subversive ideas can never be eliminated. Whether this capacity is actually of any use, though, depends on the system. The dystopian world of 1984 deals with subversive thoughts in such an efficient way, that revolutionary spirit is …

Review of '1984' on 'Storygraph'

1984 is one of those cultural touchstones that stay relevant decades after it publishing, decades after the people and regimes it critiques are long dead. It's imagery and the world it paints is extremely evocative and by far carries this book, despite it's lukewarm romance plot. If anyone reads any of 1984, they should read Goldstein's book. It lays out an almost autonomous accumulation and misuse of power that remains relevant today in every country.

Review of 'George Orwell\'s "1984"' on 'Goodreads'

A masterpiece, as a political theory. Haunting futurology. Dense and heavy description of its society. However, i found the technology framework poorly detailed, which should act as an important pressure point, a tension instrument for the whole concept.

Review of 'George Orwell\'s "1984"' on 'Goodreads'

Re-read during the pandemic. Had been meaning to do so as it became clear that its lessons were not heeded but put into practice. Fortunately, incompetence has hindered success. But the cruelty and indifference behind the actions is eerily reminiscent of big brother.

Review of 'George Orwell\'s "1984"' on 'Goodreads'

This was even better in the reread. The writing is so crisp, the ideas so relevant.

I'd read critiques and was psyching myself up for disappointment, it had been years and years and years since I'd read it. Luckily I found out that - while the critiques weren't totally off the mark - they weren't anywhere near strong enough to take away from the power and timelessness of this work.

Newspeak alone makes this a legendary work: doublethink, facecrime and duckspeak are almost comically relevant today.

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