1984
Para controlar todo no basta con apropiarse sólo de la voluntad y de la conciencia de los individuos hay que hacerse dueño de su lenguaje. En 1984 encontramos al líder único cuya presencia es antes que nada una abstracción, la negación del individuo, la sustracción de la información: el Gran Hermano, el Big Brother.
1984 es al mismo tiempo una advertencia y un deseo: advertencia de habitar un mundo cerrado donde el Otro es impensable, y donde al mismo tiempo el individuo ha desaparecido. Pero también se trata de un deseo de que la realidad sea de otro modo, acaso más atroz , pero también menos aburrida.
301 pages, Paperback
First published June 8,1949
This edition
- Format
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301 pages, Paperback
- Published
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August 15, 2002 by Lectorum
- ISBN
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9789685270885
- ASIN
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9685270880
- Language
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Spanish; Castilian
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Big Brother
the dark-eyed, mustachioed embodiment of the Party who rules Oceania...
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Obrien
About fifty year old. He wears glasses. A member of the Inner Party who poses as a member of The Brotherhood, the counter-revolutionary resistance, in order to deceive, trap, and capture Winston and Julia. OBrien has a servant named Martin.m...
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Emmanuel Goldstein
ostensibly a former leader of the Party, counter-revolutionary leader of the Brotherhood, and author of The Book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, Goldstein is the symbolic enemy of the state—the national nemesis who ideologically uni...
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Tom Parsons
Married with two kids....
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Syme
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Julia
Julia is a 26-year old girl who lives in a hostel with 30 other girls. She operates the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth....
About the author
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
