Seventy years after his death, George Orwell joined the prestigious collection of Éditions Gallimard.
The timing is well chosen.
Because, if the British writer has been described as a visionary, his work has never seemed so current as the year 2020 has false airs of 1984. Already, after the announcement of the first confinement, last March, research related to the famous dystopia had exploded on Google while on Twitter appeared the hashtag
# Covid1984
.
Today, the adjective "Orwellian" continues to be called upon to denounce the deprivation of liberty.
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The delicate French translation of 1984 by George Orwell
Published in 1949, written during the war,
1984
reads like a novel of anticipation, but also as a critique of the Soviet and Nazi regimes.
The reader is immersed in a totalitarian world governed by a
“Big Brother”
which creeps into the conscience.
The crime of thought is punishable by death, and reality is dictated by the newspeak of a single party and its ministry of Truth.
Goal: to create a new docile man
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