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If George Orwell Were Alive Today...: On Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Thrust of Orwellian Satire
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 postwar 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.
At the same time Nineteen Eighty-Four was very much a product of postwar 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Arden
- Publish Date: Jul 8th, 2020
- Pages: 52
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.00in - 4.80in - 0.20in - 0.22lb
- EAN: 9781925984682
- Categories: • Modern - 21st Century• Political Ideologies - General• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Dale, John: - John Dale is the author of seven books including the campus novel 'Leaving Suzie Pye', which was translated into Turkish, and a novella Plenty. His best-selling true-crime biography 'Huckstepp' was the winner of a Ned Kelly award, as was the first of his three crime novels. He has also published 'Wild Life', a memoir of his grandfather, and edited three anthologies, including the recent 'Sydney Noir'. He is a Professor of Writing at UTS.