The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984 / Dorian Lynskey.
Lynskey, Dorian, author.
2019
PR6029.R8 N543 2019 (Mapit)
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Title The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984 / Dorian Lynskey.
Author Lynskey, Dorian, author.
Edition First American edition.
ISBN 9780385544054 (hardcover)
0385544057 (hardcover)
9780385544061
0385544065
Published New York : Doubleday, [2019]
Language English
Description xix, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number PR6029.R8 N543 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.912
Summary "1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5--that gain potency with every year, particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts," anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). The Ministry of Truth is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Great Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-332) and index.
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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
Black millennium
So damned scared
Orwellmania
Oceania 2.0
Afterword.

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