Nineteen Eighty-Four

325 pages

English language

Published March 7, 2008 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-103614-4
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Which One Will YOU Be IN the Year 1984?

There won't be much choice, of course, if this book's predictions turn out to be true. But you'll probably become one of the following four types:

Proletarian--Considered inferior and kept in total ignorance, you'll be fed lies from the Ministry of Truth, eliminated upon signs of promise or ability!

Police Guard--Chosen for lack of intelligence but superiour brown, you'll be suspicious of everyone and be ready to give your life for Big Brother, the leader you've never even seen!

Party Member--Male--Face-less, mind-less, a flesh-and-blood robot with a push-button brain, you're denied love by law, taught hate by the flick of a switch!

Party Member--Female--A member of the Anti-Sex League from birth, your duty will be to smother all human emotion, and your children might not be your husband's!

Unbelievable? You'll feel differently after you've read …

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1984
„Das ist doch das Buch mit dem totalitären Überwachungsstaat. Big Brother is watching you!“. Wohl eines der bekanntesten Bücher überhaupt, immer wieder wird es genannt, wenn es in einer Diskussion um Überwachung und Datenschutz geht – aber wer hat es denn wirklich gelesen? Bei mir lag die letzte Lektüre wohl Jahrzehnte zurück, vermutlich noch in der Schulzeit. Also habe ich es mir nochmal vorgenommen – und war erstaunt: Ja, natürlich ist die totale Überwachung ein wesentliches Element dieses Buches. Aber eigentlich geht es um viel mehr. Es geht um die Frage: Was kann ein einzelner einem übermächtigen Staat entgegensetzen? Und noch viel mehr darum: Was ist eigentlich Wahrheit?
In diesem Buch ist Winston Smith, ein eher niederes Mitglied der PARTEI, in seinem Beruf ständig damit beschäftigt, die Vergangenheit zu korrigieren, indem alte Zeitungsartikel, Bücher, ja sogar literarische Werke an die aktuelle Situation angepasst werden. Denn: Die Partei hat immer …

reviewed Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (The Complete works of George Orwell -- v. 1)

Review of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' on 'Storygraph'

There are a few things that I find riveting in 1984:
- The idea that information control can shape reality. I first read 1984 in college, before algorithms played such a huge role in our lives. Today the notion that influencing information access can shape a populations' perception of the world, encourage opinion, shape our behaviors is all too real.
- The sense of hopelessness is absolute. I've never felt so mournful finishing a book. At the end, the world of individual liberty and hope has just completed fading from view. As Winston capitulates, the state continues its inexorable march to consuming the whole of the human experience, subverting romantic relationships, subverting the relationship between children and parents, even purging language of unorthodox concepts.

I probably shouldn't read books like this on the road. What a downer.

Review of '1984' on 'Goodreads'

Completamente de actualidad, de ser una distopía a estar mucho más cerca de la realidad. La vigilancia y el seguimiento constante, el doble lenguaje, la impunidad de la maquina gobernante y la manipulación ideologica. No lo recordaba yo tan terrible pero igual es que se parece demasiado al presente mientras que cuando lo leí hace muchos años solo era una fantasía.

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