Nineteen Eighty-Four

Synopsis

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Ideas Explored

• Authoritarian Governance Model
• Cultural Engineering and Control
• Language as Biological Virus
• Total Surveillance Society
• Weaponized Rhetoric

Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: futurologycensorshipsurveillancerebelssting operationshistorical negationismmemory holesthoughtcrimeOuter Partyresistance movements

isfdb_id: 15862

openlibrary_id: OL1168083W

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