Name: 1984 (in Spanish)
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Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9788423342310

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George Orwell

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Synopsis "1984 (in Spanish)"

Aquesta novel·la, escrita el 1948, és un dels grans al·legats del segle XX contra el totalitarisme. En el futur hipotètic en què se situa l'acció, el món està dominat per tres grans superpotències, totes tres enfrontades entre elles per principis ideològics diferents, però totes tres totalitàries. Winston Smith, el protagonista, viu a Londres i treballa al ministeri de la Veritat reescrivint i retocant la història de la seva superpotència. Quan s'adona que amb aquesta feina l'únic que fa és contribuir a la farsa del seu govern, i sobretot quan entra en relació amb una jove rebel, és quan topa frontalment amb el Gran Germà, que controla fins al més mínim detall de la vida privada de tothom, amb uns mecanismes de domini que recorden els del nazisme i els de l'estalinisme.

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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