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Hugh Kermode
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George Orwell
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'Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.'
Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth - or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak - altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda. Beneath his outward conformity, Winston dreams of sharing his treasonable thoughts, breaking ’the locked loneliness in which one had to live’. And so he takes his first dangerous steps - writing a diary of his doubts and then falling in love with a woman of the Party, the beautiful and brave Julia. They know their love is doomed, but Julia swears ’They can make you say anything - anything - but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you’. In Oceania, however, there is no possibility of solidarity, rebellion or love, and the Party can get anywhere.
George Orwell’s 1984 was first published in 1949. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day.
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- Carlex
- 02-04-22
an essential classic
A great classic, one more on my list of read dystopias:
- We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamiaitin
- Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley (pending to re-read it).
- Swastika Night (1937) by Katharine Burdekin (as a dystopia I highly recommend this one!).
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury (also pending to reread it!)
- And now 1984 (1949)..., what's next?
I assume it couldn't be any other way, I'm a bit devastated after this reading but I'll get over it with my next non-dystopian reading (Planetfall by Emma Newman ;-)
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