Utsob Roy reviewed The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey
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5 stars
This is a book about a book. Not any random book, but the '1984' by George Orwell. Both of them are phenomenally famous, ambiguous, and misinterpreted.
If one loses sight of Orwell's politics (he was a Democratic Socialist), his background, struggles, and disillusionment ('Homage to Catalonia' is what one needs), it is natural to think that it was a pro-capitalist book to undermine socialism.
This book deals with this misconception and many others. A chronicle that starts from conceiving the book to finishing it, and then, the ever-transforming socio-cultural effect it had on his time, and times after that. To make his point, Minsky did his homework well.
This is a book about a book. Not any random book, but the '1984' by George Orwell. Both of them are phenomenally famous, ambiguous, and misinterpreted.
If one loses sight of Orwell's politics (he was a Democratic Socialist), his background, struggles, and disillusionment ('Homage to Catalonia' is what one needs), it is natural to think that it was a pro-capitalist book to undermine socialism.
This book deals with this misconception and many others. A chronicle that starts from conceiving the book to finishing it, and then, the ever-transforming socio-cultural effect it had on his time, and times after that. To make his point, Minsky did his homework well.