Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this dramatically popular book.
George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote.
Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.
The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is still the great modern classic of negative Utopia.
'Orwell's lean prose, finely honed political discourse, and penetrating images seem as fresh, as menacing, and as disturbingly prophetic as ever. With British equanimity, Simon Prebble accentuates every shade of gray in post-Blitzed-London'.Prebble is especially effective at subtly changing pace and giving weight to each character's most telling moments'.1984 remains one of the most powerful and influential masterworks of twentieth-century literature.''AudioFile
George Orwell (1903-1950) was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. Considered a classic of dystopian fiction, ‘1984’ has contributed many terms to common usage, including Big Brother, doublethink, newspeak and thoughtcrime, while the adjective 'Orwellian' has entered the English language in the context of government deception, surveillance, and misleading terminology. The narrative unfolds in an imagined future when most of the world has fallen prey to omnipresent government surveillance, propaganda and endless war. In the novel ‘1984’, the protagonist Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a state where the Party scrutinizes every human action with Big Brother. Defying a ban on individualism, Winston expresses his thoughts in a diary and pursues a relationship with his colleague, Julia. These criminal acts bring Winston to the attention of Big Brother.
1984, le livre légendaire écrit par George Orwell, enfin disponible dans une nouvelle traduction française. Un regard terrifiant sur l'avenir et une menace très claire sur ce que pourrait être notre futur, avec un État omniprésent et ultra-répressif. 1984 est le livre incontournable de l'anticipation dystopique.
L'histoire : Dans le futur, le monde a été divisé en trois empires qui se combattent en permanence : L'Océanie, l'Asie de l'Est et l'Eurasie. 1984 se passe à Londres, dans l'Océanie, une dictature. Winston Smith est le personnage principal du roman, un agent du Parti qui travaille au ministère de la Vérité. Son travail consiste à réécrire les articles de presse et modifier les données de l'État afin que tout correspondent à la vision du Parti unique. Big Brother est le chef invisible du Parti, mais ses portraits sont partout. Chacun est constamment surveillé, d'où le slogan ' Big Brother vous regarde '. Trois slogans sont omniprésents : ' La guerre c'est la paix ', ' La liberté c'est l'esclavage ', ' L'ignorance c'est la force ' ; quatre ministères l'organisent - Vérité, Paix, Amour, Abondance -, et la population est répartie en trois classes - le Parti intérieur (les dirigeants), le Parti extérieur (ceux qui servent le pouvoir), et les prolétaires.
' Dans cette contre-utopie cinglante, Orwell propose une réflexion sur la ruine de l'homme par la confiscation de la pensée et la prolifération de la technocratie '. Cette vision du futur est elle improbable ? A vous d'en juger...
'Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.'
Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth — or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak — altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda. Beneath his outward conformity, Winston dreams of sharing his treasonable thoughts, breaking ’the locked loneliness in which one had to live’. And so he takes his first dangerous steps — writing a diary of his doubts and then falling in love with a woman of the Party, the beautiful and brave Julia. They know their love is doomed, but Julia swears ’They can make you say anything — anything — but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.’ In Oceania, however, there is no possibility of solidarity, rebellion or love, and the Party can get anywhere.
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published in 1949. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day.
Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...
Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thought crimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can't escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...A startling and haunting vision of the world, 1984 is so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the influence of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions-a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.
Published in 1948, this cautionary tale follows a lone protagonist who struggles under the rule of a repressive totalitarian government. Set in a future version of England, called Airstrip One, the novel is famous for its imagined language that conjures a cruelly cynical authoritarian regime. One of the most popular novels in the English language, it is part political thriller and part science fiction, and it established the word Orwellian to describe official deception, unwarranted surveillance, and revisionist history by the state.
Winston Smith, ein einfaches Mitglied der diktatorischen Staatspartei, arbeitet im Ministerium für Wahrheit, wo er die Vergangenheit im Sinne der Regierung umschreibt. 'Der große Bruder' überwacht alle Bürger, jeder Widerstand gegen das System wird streng bestraft. Winston jedoch sehnt sich in seinem Innersten nach echter Wahrheit - und nach Liebe. Trotz aller Verbote beginnt er eine Beziehung mit seiner Kollegin Julia und träumt sogar davon, sich gegen die Partei aufzulehnen. Doch aus dem Überwachungsstaat gibt es kein Entkommen ...
Die berühmte Dystopie von George Orwell, neu übersetzt von Karsten Singelmann.
Das vermutlich älteste und beste Buch über Militärstrategien diente bereits vielen berühmten Feldherren als Inspirationsquelle. Es ist auch in der heutigen Zeit eine hochinteressante Lektüre, deren Aussagen auf viele Lebensbereiche ausstrahlt.
Ausstattung mit edlem Cabra-Leder-Einband mit Folienprägung und Lesebändchen
It’s 1984. Winston Smith lives alone in London. He is a secret rebel plotting his escape from the Party: the deadly dictatorship led by Big Brother. Winston dreams of finding freedom, love and peace: everything that is outlawed. His act of defiance will get him killed - but his courage is unshaken. He risks everything in his desperate search for truth and humanity as he once knew them. The story of Winston’s rebellion, and his need to love others, reveals the strength of the human spirit against the darkest sides of human nature. This audio experience is an immersive re-telling of the original book.
(LATAM Spanish) Es 1984. Winston Smith vive sólo en Londres. Es un rebelde encubierto conspirando su fuga del Partido: una dictadura mortal liderada por El Gran Hermano. Winston sueña con encontrar la libertad, el amor y la paz: todo lo que está prohibido. Su resistencia podría matarlo, pero su valentía es impasible. Arriesga todo en una búsqueda desesperada por la verdad y la humanidad tal y como la conocía. La historia de la rebelión de Winston, y su necesidad de amar a los demás, nos revela la fuerza del espíritu individual contra el lado más oscuro de la humanidad. Esta experiencia auditiva e inmersiva pretende contarnos la obra original de 1984.
(Castilian Spanish) Es 1984. Winston Smith vive sólo en Londres. Es un rebelde encubierto conspirando su fuga del Partido: una dictadura mortal liderada por El Gran Hermano. Winston sueña con encontrar la libertad, el amor y la paz: todo lo que está prohibido. Su resistencia podría matarlo, pero su valentía es impasible. Arriesga todo en una búsqueda desesperada por la verdad y la humanidad tal y como la conocía. La historia de la rebelión de Winston, y su necesidad de amar a los demás, nos revela la fuerza del espíritu individual contra el lado más oscuro de la humanidad. Esta experiencia auditiva e inmersiva pretende contarnos la obra original de 1984.
1984 es el último libro escrito por Orwell, publicado un año antes de su muerte en 1950. En él, proyectaba un futuro distópico donde se presentaba una sociedad estrictamente controlada por un totalitarismo extremo y un individuo que empieza a pensar por sí mismo, replanteándose el sistema vigente. Aunque la fecha se haya superado, con Internet como una versión inmaterial del Gran Hermano, el creciente poder de las grandes corporaciones, cada vez más poderosas y globalizadas, y la capacidad de control y recopilación de información que representan las nuevas tecnologías, que suponen a la vez un medio de difusión de proclamas, de mansajes velados y fake news, mantienen la vigencia del relato de Orwell.
