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020			_a9781509890743
040			_aGSU _beng _cGSU _dGSU _erda
050			_aPR6029.R8 _bLYN
100	1		_aLynskey, Dorian, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe ministry of truth : _ba biography of George Orwell`s 1984 / _cDorian Lynskey
260			_aLondon : _bPicador, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_axix, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505		0	_aIntroduction 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
520			_aGeorge 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
650		0	_aNineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George)
650		0	_aDystopias in literature
650		0	_aScience fiction, English
650		0	_aTotalitarianism in literature
650		0	_aOrwell, George, 1903-1950
650		0	_aScience fiction, _xEnglish History and criticism
655			_aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
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