1984

Published Nov. 19, 2004 by Bentang Pustaka.

ISBN:
978-979-3062-33-4
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Dalam novel “1984”, Orwell menggambarkan pemerintahan yang menggunakan alat pengawasan untuk melanggengkan kekuasaan. Dalam konteks saat ini, gagasan pengawasan tersebut dapat dilihat dalam internet.

Eric Arthur Blair atau lebih dikenal dengan nama pena George Orwell bisa dibilang sebagai seorang penulis yang visioner. Novelnya yang berjudul “1984”, yang diterbitkan pada 1949, adalah sebuah novel dystopia tentang kondisi dunia di masa depan yang dipimpin oleh pemimpin diktator. Setelah novel tersebut terbit, banyak orang yang membacanya sebagai ramalan. “1984” yang berceritakan dunia dalam genggaman diktator memberi gambaran menakutkan bagi pembaca masa itu tentang masa depan mereka. Saat tahun 1984 mendekat, penduduk dunia semakin tegang dengan kemungkinan masa depannya.

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Una obra fundamental sobre el totalitarismo.

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Distopía escrita por George Orwell en los años cuarenta del siglo XX, 1984 ha marcado nuestra concepción, nuestra comprensión de lo que es un totalitarismo. Y no solo el soviético estalinista al que alude de manera más obvia con ese Gran Hermano con bigote cuya mirada en los carteles parece seguirte, sino también a otros totalitarismos más sutiles, vigentes, que afectan íntimamente nuestra esfera privada.

Para quien piense que es una exageración que nuestra sociedad también esté, al menos en parte, retratada en esa novela, le traigo una anécdota de lo más ilustrativa: hace unos años Amazon, por problemas con la editorial de varios de los libros de Orwell, eliminó de todos los dispositivos Kindle, a distancia, precisamente 1984 y Rebelión en la Granja. Y lo hizo sin necesidad de entrar casa por casa, sin necesidad de quemar papel. Fue cuestión de que un tipo en un edificio lejano apretara …

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George Orwell is indisputably the greatest didactic writer in the English language since Samuel Johnson. As an essayist, he is a nonpareil, and his insights — which he modestly characterized as "a power of facing unpleasant facts" — are remarkable, original, and biting. The scintillating force of his pen shines most brightly in his essays and his memoirs.

The very power of his personal prose that gives such force to his essays and memoirs, however, leaves his fiction curiously flat. For all his insight, he seems to lack the ability to free his characters to lead independent fictional lives. A person reading Orwell's novels for their characterization would shoot himself.

Such is the force, clarity, and originality of Orwell's ideas, however, and the freshness of his candor, that it is easy to forgive the flat characterization and intrusive narration of the novels. And while each generation seems to find some …

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