1984

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George Orwell

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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

2 years, 4 months ago at Jan 17 13:07

AgentLexi

7 votes

''In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make the claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was ... read more

Na sala 101, todos têm seus limites.

3 years, 4 months ago at Jan 18 13:10

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A trama se passa em Londres, cidade principal da Pista N°1, sob o regime totalitário do Grande Irmão (Big Brother) e sua ideologia Ingsoc. Conta a história de Winston Smith, que trabalha no serviço de rectificação de notícias já publicadas. Ele comela a interessar-se pela sua colega de trabalho Julia, porém ele encontra-se num ambiente em que sexo, senão para procriação, é considerad... read more

A masterful piece of literature

4 years, 4 months ago at Dec 29 19:35

oliper

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An awe-inspiring piece of literature, Orwell not only presents us with a brutally depressing dystopia, but a flawlessly crafted one as well. He manages to be so descriptive about so little, Im such a way that you really feel for what characters there are in the book, and the empathy you feel for them and the predicament of mankind is unrivalled, particularly in the closing chapters. The root of al... read more

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Description: "Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere." The year is 1984;
"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."

The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.

Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"

In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is always looking for his chance. --Daniel Hintzsche

Book Description
George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of "Negative Utopia" is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful.

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Manufacturer : New American Library
Release date : 1 January 1961
ISBN-10 : 0451524934 | ISBN-13: 9780451524935

Fiction (22), Dystopia (18), Politics (11), Totalitarianism (9), Big Brother (8), Classics (7), Dystopian (6), George Orwell (6), Sci-fi (6), Classic (6), British (5), Science Fiction (5), Scifi (4), Future (4), Capitalism (4), Literature (4), Political Science (4), Metaphysics (3), War Is Peace (3), 1984 (3)

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"George Orwell’s publisher didn’t feel that the title to Orwell’s novel The Last Man in Europe was terribly commercial and recommended using 1984 instead (stories vary as to why: some claim that it was a reworking of the year Orwell finished writing the book , others that it was a reference to G.K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill). "