How to Build a Dystopia
An authoritative, wide ranging and incredibly timely history of 1984 its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop Nineteen Eighty Four isn t just a novel it s a key to understanding the modern world George Orwell s final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2 2 5 that gain potency with every year Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller Ministry of Alternative Facts, anyone Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels The Handmaid s Tale , films Brazil , television shows V for Vendetta , rock albums Diamond Dogs , commercials Apple , even reality TV Big Brother How to Build a Dystopia is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it the personal experiences in wartime Great Britain that Orwell drew upon as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days and the political and cultural phenomenon that the novel ignited at once upon publication and which far from subsiding, has only grown over the decades It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history. Best Read How to Build a Dystopia Author Dorian Lynskey For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr
- 01 August 2017 Dorian Lynskey
- Hardcover
- 256 pages
- 0385544057
- Dorian Lynskey
- How to Build a Dystopia