If George Orwell were alive today...
Subtitle: on Nineteen eighty-four and the thrust of Orwellian satire
By: John Dale
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd
Published: 2019
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781925801873
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Political and social views; Criticism and interpretation; English Political fiction; History and criticism; Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George)
Description: Great writers engage with the changing times and by using their imaginations transform their ideas and environments into fiction. More than any other writer of the 20th century, George Orwell responded to a period of historical change by imagining his dystopian future of Nineteen Eighty-Four, perhaps the most influential political novel ever written. At the same time Nineteen Eighty-Four was very much a product of post-war England with its rations and shortages. Orwell, in fact, remained a socialist until his death in January 1950, but the far more intriguing question is what Nineteen Eighty-Four would be like if it were written today, in an age of Islamist terror, fake news and post-truth politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.