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portada The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780385544054
Edition No.
1

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 (in English)

Dorian Lynskey (Author) · Doubleday & Co · Hardcover

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 (in English) - Dorian Lynskey

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Synopsis "The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 (in English)"

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”--George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop.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.

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Juan Carlos AnduckiaThursday, July 28, 2022
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De acuerdo con esta biografía, faltó poco para que Orwell no fuera como el Guasón de la película: "Failure, failure, failure -failure behind me, failure ahead of me- that was by far the deepest conviction that I carried away".Por fortuna no fue así, y esta biografía reconstruye los avatares de una de las novelas más impactantes que se hayan escrito.

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