hardcover, 64 pages
Published Aug. 1, 2021 by Baker Street Press.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
Also contained in:
Novels (Animal Farm / Burmese Days / Clergyman's Daughter / Coming Up for Air / Keep the Aspidistra Flying / Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Novels (Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
Also contained in:
Novels (Animal Farm / Burmese Days / Clergyman's Daughter / Coming Up for Air / Keep the Aspidistra Flying / Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Novels (Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four)
This was a reread, and unsurprisingly not very enjoyable. Many of the “classics” of SF are idea driven, and I respect the endeavor, but they are not fun to read. There’s a full ~15% that is a political theory book within the book.
As literary science fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel of the social science fiction sub-genre, the terms and concepts of Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Memory hole et cetera, became contemporary vernacular, including the adjective Orwellian, denoting George Orwell’s writings and totalitarianism as exposited in Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell has mastered the art of writing, and dystopian societies so much so that even now days there is a sense of science fiction and relevants to our society.
Overrated and the characters were so shallow I had no emotional attachment to them at all.
Reading this in 2024 was definitely... an experience. Smarter people than I have written about which parts of the world of "1984" have become part of our reality since its publication. Let me just add that I sometimes had to put the book down because it felt as if I was reading a newspaper.
The plot itself is not the star of this novel - the world we visit in it is, as is arguably the protagonist's view of it. An irritating (and violent) journey into the mind of an Oceanian citizen, not the best choice for the faint-hearted reader.
Recommended if not required reading for everyone who is trying to make sense of our world.
I read this for the second time after my first visit to "Oceania" when I was around 20 - definitely a different experience for reasons both personal and, well, civilizational. I picked it up …
Reading this in 2024 was definitely... an experience. Smarter people than I have written about which parts of the world of "1984" have become part of our reality since its publication. Let me just add that I sometimes had to put the book down because it felt as if I was reading a newspaper.
The plot itself is not the star of this novel - the world we visit in it is, as is arguably the protagonist's view of it. An irritating (and violent) journey into the mind of an Oceanian citizen, not the best choice for the faint-hearted reader.
Recommended if not required reading for everyone who is trying to make sense of our world.
I read this for the second time after my first visit to "Oceania" when I was around 20 - definitely a different experience for reasons both personal and, well, civilizational. I picked it up again to prepare for reading "[b:Julia|86508927|Julia|Sandra Newman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1680077531l/86508927.SX50.jpg|94140994]" by Sandra Newman, which portrays the same story from the perspective of the major female character in "1984". If you "liked" Orwell's version and want to feel more miserable, give "Julia" a try too.
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