1984

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Am 3. September 2013 von HarperCollins veröffentlicht.

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978-0-547-24964-3
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75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. 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.

Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and …

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reviewed 1984 by George Orwell

Big Brother is watching you

4 stars

Während die ersten beiden Teile von Nineteen Eighty-Four noch äußerst spannend das Überleben und den Kampf gegen einen fiktiven diktatorischen Überwachungsstaat zeigen, verliert sich die Geschichte im dritten Teil ausschließlich in den brutalen Foltermethoden, die der Protagonist nach seiner Verhaftung über sich ergehen lassen muss. Wer nicht aufpasst, könnte meinen, dass es sich hier um eine Kritik am Sozialismus handelt, aber George Orwell war selbst bekennender Sozialist und kritisiert eher den Autoritarismus.

reviewed 1984: George Orwell by George Orwell

Definitivamente necesario leer

4 stars

Si bien Orwell al ser social demócrata tenía sus opiniones tanto acerca del comunismo y del fascismo, unas más fuertes que otras, retrata lo vivido y que se puede vivir bajo el totalitarismo ya que este se puede dar en diferentes contextos y en diferentes gobiernos, llevando a tomar consciencia de que la realidad obtenida bajo el liberalismo se puede quebrar al darle paso a discursos totalitarios sin analizar antes lo que con lleva en sí

reviewed Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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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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