Nineteen Eighty-Four

355 pages

English language

Published Oct. 20, 2013 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:
9780141393049
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17118898

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5 stars (3 reviews)

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.

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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)

143 editions

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5 stars

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

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Monsieur Phi : Le plus terrifiant dans 1984… est une idée philosophique Monsieur Phi : Orwell avait-il tout prévu ? 👁️👁️ Linguisticae : La NOVLANGUE de 1984 (G. Orwell) Arte : George Orwell, Aldous Huxley : « 1984 » ou « Le meilleur des mondes » ?

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 …

Horrifyingly Excellent

5 stars

Absolutely excellent book, a must read for everyone in my opinion. It does get a little dry at certain parts, but picks right back up. It is entirely worth pushing through.

The book expresses an insanely scary, yet completely plausible future of the world, or more likely certain places. Some places around the world share many similar core values with the world of 1984, which furthermore helps strengthen the fearful possibility. 1984 is a great fusion of non-fiction, history, futurism, and fiction in a dystopian world ruled by people who quite literally want nothing more than power, pure, unadulterated power. They will do anything to get it, and do anything to keep it. This is all done in a fictional world, but sometimes it really feels like you're reading non-fiction, due to how completely possible the world created is. Many values shown in the book, you hear and see about …

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

5 stars

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 …

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