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1984
Et si la vérité n’était qu’une question de pouvoir ? Dans 1984, George Orwell dépeint un monde où Big Brother contrôle tout : la pensée, l’histoire, même l’amour.
In this novel, continuously popular since its first publication, readers can explore the dark and extraordinary world he brought so fully to life. The principal characters who lead us through that world are ordinary human beings like ourselves: Winston Smith and Julia, whose falling in love is also an act of rebellion against the Party. Opposing them are the massed powers of the state, which watches its citizens on all sides through technology now only too familiar to us. No-one is free from surveillance; the past is constantly altered, so that there is no truth except the most recent version; and Big Brother, both loved and feared, controls all. Even the simple act of keeping a diary - as Winston does - is punishable by death.
In Winston's battle to keep his freedom of thought, he has a powerful adversary in O'Brien, who uses fear and pain to enter his very thought processes. Does 2+2 = 4? Or is it 5? We find out in Room 101. Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell's last novel; but the world he created is always with us, as successive generations of readers find within it a mirror for their own times and a warning for the future.
George Orwell
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George Orwell (1903–1950), de son vrai nom Eric Arthur Blair, est un écrivain et journaliste britannique, figure majeure de la littérature du XXe siècle. Engagé contre les totalitarismes et les inégalités sociales, il puise son inspiration dans ses expériences de la guerre civile espagnole, de la précarité à Londres et Paris, et de son combat contre l’impérialisme. Ses deux œuvres les plus célèbres, La Ferme des animaux (1945) et 1984 (1949), sont des critiques acerbes des régimes autoritaires, mêlant satire politique et anticipation visionnaire. Orwell a marqué l’histoire littéraire en inventant des concepts comme Big Brother, la novlangue ou la double pensée, devenus des références pour dénoncer les dérives du pouvoir.
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