The
Future of
Nineteen
Eighty-Four
Ejner J. Jensen, Editor
George Orwell's novel,
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
stands as the foremost example of the political
novel. Written in the aftermath of the atrocities of
World War II, it has affected our view of society
for over thirty years, and has marked our antici–
pation of the future. But are we to read it as
prophecy or as Orwell's own brand of social
criticism? Or is it really a thinly veiled autobiogra–
phy? The contributors to this study of
Nineteen
Eighty-Four
examine the novel from a variety of
perspectives: literary-critical, semantic, histori–
cal, political, sociological, psychological, and
biographical. The result is a fascinating analysis
of one of the most widely read and studied novels
ever written.
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