1984 - Leselog

648 Seiten

English language

Am 28. April 1983 von Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-0-547-24964-3

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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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Kim 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

Keno Goertz 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 …

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 crushed before it even started to materialize.

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British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
London (england), fiction
Fiction, political
Fiction, dystopian
Fiction, science fiction, general

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