Login

 


 
     
Limit to available items
Record:   Prev Next
book jacket
BOOK
Title The ministry of truth : a biography of George Orwell's 1984 / Dorian Lynskey
Imprint London : Picador, 2019

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Litteraturvetenskap & författarbiografier  820 Orwell engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xix, 355 pages ; 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Part One: History stopped -- Utopia fever -- The world we're going down into -- Wells-world -- Radio Orwell -- The heretic -- Inconvenient facts -- Every book is a failure -- The clocks strike thirteen -- Part Two: Black millennium -- So damned scared -- Orwellmania -- Oceania 2.0 -- Afterword
George Orwell's last novel has become one of the iconic narratives of the modern world. Its ideas have become part of the language - from 'Big Brother' to the 'Thought Police', 'Doublethink', and 'Newspeak' - and seem ever more relevant in the era of 'fake news' and 'alternative facts', while the cultural influence of 1984 ranges from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids Tale to David Bowie's Diamond Dogs, from the launch of Apple Mac to the reality TV landmark, Big Brother. In this book, Dorian Lynskey investigates Orwell's formative experiences from the Spanish Civil War and war-time London to his book's roots in utopian and dystopian fiction. And he explores the phenomenon that the novel became on publication and the changing ways in which it has been read over the decades since
Subject Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four
Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George)
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
Dystopias in literature
Litteraturanalys
Litteraturvetenskap
Dystopier i litteraturen
Science fiction
Classmark 823.912
ISBN/ISSN 9781509890736 (hbk.) :
1509890734
9781509890743 paperback
1509890742 paperback
Record:   Prev Next