1984
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1984
14.99 €
George Orwell's famous novel does not lose its relevance over the years, the attitude to the novel changes, but once again we are convinced that the writer has traced the totalitarian idea to its logical end. Classic dystopia, stronger than which it is impossible to imagine anything. It is a generalized formula for a state built on the destruction of the individual. "1984" - not a picture of the real system, not a speculative attempt to imagine the coming, it is a novel of warning, it is a picture of how it should not be.
"Doublethink," "Big Brother," "thoughtcrime," "newspeak" - these neologisms have become part of our reality. George Orwell invites each of us to think about where is the boundary, up to which it is not scary and tolerable, and beyond it - there is no way back. "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, "Oh Wonderful New World" by Aldous Huxley, "1984" by George Orwell - writers of the XX century created nightmarish models of states, different in essence, but united by one common idea: to destroy human individuality, to create a universal cog, a cell of the system. The novel "1984" is a mirror, looking into which everyone sees his greatest fear - the future, which can come everywhere, if we do not fight totalitarianism; the present, the realities of which we do not want to recognize; the past, which does not want to let us go. The fictional world of "1984" and real-life totalitarian regimes, Emmanuel Golsteyn's mysterious book and the theories that informed it, the author's personal experiences during the Spanish War, serving as a colonial official in Burma, and Britain during World War II - the commentary offers a detailed account of why Orwell's novel has become the universal formula for totalitarianism.
"Doublethink," "Big Brother," "thoughtcrime," "newspeak" - these neologisms have become part of our reality. George Orwell invites each of us to think about where is the boundary, up to which it is not scary and tolerable, and beyond it - there is no way back. "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, "Oh Wonderful New World" by Aldous Huxley, "1984" by George Orwell - writers of the XX century created nightmarish models of states, different in essence, but united by one common idea: to destroy human individuality, to create a universal cog, a cell of the system. The novel "1984" is a mirror, looking into which everyone sees his greatest fear - the future, which can come everywhere, if we do not fight totalitarianism; the present, the realities of which we do not want to recognize; the past, which does not want to let us go. The fictional world of "1984" and real-life totalitarian regimes, Emmanuel Golsteyn's mysterious book and the theories that informed it, the author's personal experiences during the Spanish War, serving as a colonial official in Burma, and Britain during World War II - the commentary offers a detailed account of why Orwell's novel has become the universal formula for totalitarianism.
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