Name: 1984 (in Catalan)
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Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9788418196454

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Physical Book

Author

George Orwell

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DEBUTXACA

Synopsis "1984 (in Catalan)"

Una obra mestra ambientada en una societat distòpica,totalitària i dictatorial, que reflexiona sobre conceptes encaravigents com ara la censura, la manipulació dels mitjans de comunicació i la falta de llibertats individuals en benefici d'un suposat interès comú.

L'any 1984 Londres és una ciutat fosca en què laPolicia del Pensament controla exhaustivament la vida dels ciutadans.Winston Smith és un peó d'aquest engranatge pervers i té com aobjectiu reescriure la història per adaptar-la al que el Partitconsidera la versió oficial dels fets. Fins que un dia en Winstondecideix qüestionar-se el sistema que els governa i els sotmet.

«No hi haurà lleialtat, llevat de la lleialtat al Partit. No hihaurà amor, llevat de l'amor pel Gran Germà. No hi haurà rialles,llevat de les rialles del triomf davant un enemic derrotat. No hihaurà art, ni literatura ni ciència. Quan siguem omnipotents ja nonecessitarem la ciència. No hi haurà distinció entre la bellesa i lalletjor. No hi haurà curiositat ni alegria davant el curs de la vida.Tots els plaers antagònics seran destruïts¤.

George Orwell

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Eric Arthur Blair (Motihari, British Raj, June 25, 1903-London, United Kingdom, January 21, 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was a British novelist, journalist, essayist, and critic born in India, author among other works of the dystopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949)

His work bears the mark of autobiographical experiences lived by the author in three stages of his life: his position against British imperialism which led him to commit as a representative of the colonial law enforcement forces in Burma during his youth; in favor of democratic socialism, after having observed and suffered the living conditions of the working social classes in London and Paris; and against Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianisms after his participation in the Spanish Civil War, on the Republican side

In addition to being a chronicler, literary critic, and novelist, he is one of the most prominent essayists in the English language of the 1930s and 1940s. He is also known for his criticisms of totalitarianism in his allegorical short novel Animal Farm (1945) and his dystopian novel 1984 (1949), written in his last years of life and published shortly before his death, in which he creates the concept of "Big Brother," which has since entered the common language of criticism of modern surveillance techniques.

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