1984 (Biblioteca Juvenil)
 

1984

by George Orwell

En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. (read review)

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1984 is NOT an anti-socialist novel anymore than ANIMAL FARM was an anti-communist fairytale. Orwell WAS a socialist; but he most definitely was't a Stalinist supporter. His personal experiences in the Spanish Civil War and Revolution taught him that lesson. (see his HOMAGE TO CATALONIA) In 1948, when this novel was published, the Stalinist States and the capitalist States were engaged in a very Cold War and a large part of that Cold War was being fought on the ideological front--the...

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  • Reuben M

    reuben m said:

    AHHH commies

    posted 13 days ago
  • larry t

    larry t said:

    I cannot wait to read this one. I've heard very good things about it.

    posted Monday, November 3 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • carljohnson

    carljohnson said:

    Still brilliant, still scary, still real.

    posted Tuesday, July 8 2008
  • Alireza

    alireza said:

    a number one book by salinger...the auther of 20th century !

    posted Sunday, July 6 2008
  • Khaldoon A

    khaldoon a said:

    Is it available in English?

    posted Saturday, July 5 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
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