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May 24, 2019 · Listen here. George Orwell's 1984 turns 70 this June, yet it feels more prophetic than ever. Its tale of a future in which a totalitarian regime has assumed full control over an individual's body...
Jun 8, 2019 · By Louis Menand. June 8, 2019. There are elements of “1984,” by George Orwell, that seem never to fade from relevance. Photograph from ullstein bild / Getty. George Orwell’s “ 1984 ,” published...
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May 7, 2018 · Why Orwell’s 1984 could be about now. 7 May 2018. By Jean Seaton,Features correspondent. Rebecca Hendin. Audiences around the world are re-reading George Orwell’s 1984, which is ‘a handbook for...
Sep 14, 2021 · In his analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four in his study of Orwell, George Orwell (Reader’s Guides), Jeffrey Meyers argues convincingly that, rather than being a nightmare vision of the future, a prophetic or speculative work, Orwell’s novel is actually a ‘realistic synthesis and rearrangement of familiar materials’ – indeed, as much of ...
Jun 8, 2019 · It’s almost impossible to talk about propaganda, surveillance, authoritarian politics, or perversions of truth without dropping a reference to 1984. Throughout the Cold War,...
Jun 8, 2022 · Emily Sharkis – June 8th, 2022. Book Culture Classics On This Day. Us book-nerds at Bookstr love a little dystopian literature. When thinking of this genre, Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984 often floats into people’s minds. But there’s been hundreds, if not thousands of books with dystopian elements- why does this specific one seem to be at the forefront?
Jun 13, 2019 · That is why one of the unproven rumors about “1984” — as explored in Dorian Lynskey’s “The Ministry of Truth,” a respectful and intelligent “biography” of a novel — is that the title was merely a...
