The ministry of truth : a biography of George Orwell`s 1984 / Dorian Lynskey

By:

Lynskey, Dorian [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781509890743

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Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LOC classification:

PR6029.R8 LYN

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Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	GSU Library Epoch General Stacks	Non-fiction	NFIC-PR6029.R8LYN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		50000005919

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

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