1984

Paperback, 328 psl.

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Publikuota 1963 m. rugpjūčio 31 d., Dramatic Pub..

ISBN:
978-0-87129-542-2
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4 žvaigždutės (2 atsiliepimai)

The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia"—a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

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apžvelgė autoriaus George Orwell knygą 1984

A masterpiece of dystopia. Incredible story exploring the outcome of fascism.

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I've read this book wanting to fully understand the concept "Orwellian". I was always able to conceputualize the idea of "Big Brother" but never really full understood.

This book certainly fufilled that quest for knowledge, and masterfully described a dystopian outome potentially arising from a outbreak of fascism. A perfect example of storytellying using a relatively plausible future arising from the Nazi regime and the rise 20th century authoritarianism.

apžvelgė autoriaus George Orwell knygą 1984

All the good quotes are in the first 60 pages.

3 žvaigždutės

Simultaneously holds up as a totalitarian dystopia (better than Brave New World, a fitting comparison in some cringe ways), and so entrenched in our cultural understanding that it falls flat today. In line with Orwell's other writing, the focus is on the pressure on people in the upper class to revise their own memory and to brazenly rewrite history as a matter of policy.

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  • Classics
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism