1984: The Graphic Novel

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Ministry of Truth, the enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete and 300 meters into the air with three thousand rooms above ground level, concerned itself with news, education and entertainment, that was said, but in fact, its main task was to rewrite history, so that it’d correspond with the present time and announce the news that was more likely to be false. What Winston does is edit the published newspapers in a way that Big Brother’s predictions are always retroactively correct. He also removed references to “unpersons”, or “vaporised” political dissidents and he rewrites history so that Oceania appears always to have been at war with Eastasia —or with Eurasia. It changes, depending on shifting allegiances. Only by making sure the population was loyal and too stupid to realize it, the real focus, therefore the pressure, is on the members of the Party itself —especially the Outer Party ( the hands) controlled by the members of the Inner Party ( the brains); who work for the Big Brother on the head. Je suis tout de même très heureux d'avoir enfin découvert cette œuvre et vais poursuivre mon exploration des diverses versions BD et romans de la nouvelle et de l'ancienne traduction afin de bien connaître car je pense que c'est un classique majeur et me demande pourquoi je ne m'y suis pas mis plus tôt.

Few others works have had such a profound effect on the collective psyche of mankind; and painted a plausible future, which is equal parts realistic and horrifying.

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But then you read to the end and think, well a sequel would certainly ruin everything, wouldn't it? I learned about this book accidentally, and although the person who showed it was also bewildered and could not say whether it is any good or not, I immediately included it in my priority list. Of course, I did not expect much. The conflict between Winston’s essential humanity and the dehumanizing policies of the Party is developed when Winston’s coworker, Julia, hands Winston a slip of paper. Winston has suspected Julia is following him, and he views her with a mixture of desire and paranoia, so he expects the paper to reveal a warning or a coded threat from a Party spy. Instead, it says, “I love you,” and Winston and Julia begin their affair, setting Winston’s personal desires on a collision course with Party ideology and raising the stakes of how far Winston will go to maintain his autonomy. I should say here that I am not a fan of the original book. I mean: I consider George Orwell’s “1984” one of the GREATEST and most important books written in world literature overall, in all time periods, considering its visionary insights, cultural/historical significance, and landmark messages/memes/characters, but I also think that this is a very boring and dull story. Major Thematic Topics: mutability of the past; the existence of fact through memory; memory; history; language; oppression of writers

Eurasia: Completed by the absorption of Europe by Russia. Comprised of the entire northern part of the European and Asiatic land-mass, from Portugal to the Bering Strait. Written in the late 1940s (1948) based on what he knew about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, our story happens in Oceania, London (which is called Airstrip One) following the daily life of Winston Smith, our main character. Winston, 39 years old, is an employee of the Outer Party in the Record Department in the Ministry of Truth ( Minitrue in Newspeak). Now, what this last sentence means, we’ll get into it in a minute! Winston is an indeterminate rebellion. He wonders whether life could possibly be different from the way it is; but how can he ever know when all the records of the past are changed and the history is rewritten? He is in a constant seeking of solitude, besides desiring love, companionship and freedom. In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called the Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.Ein Buch, das vor allem zum Hinterfragen einlädt und hoffentlich dazu animiert, sich zu fragen, in was für einer Gesellschaft wir leben möchten.

Excelente adaptación a novela gráfica de la obra cumbre de George Orwell, pseudónimo del escritor Eric A. Blair. Entre lo que olvidé (el ambiente deprimente del Londres de 1984, la nuevalengua y el término Socing), encontré pasajes y términos que todavía recordaba: el concepto de Hermano Mayor (Gran Hermano en la actualidad); el libro de la hermandad cuyos títulos son los lemas del partido, "la guerra es paz, la libertad es esclavitud, la ignorancia es fuerza" (que yo estaba convencida que era más como "la ignorancia es el poder"); el prota que tiene la certeza de que los proletarios se rebelarán en un futuro contra el partido se me quedó grabado a fuego desde la primera lectura, así como la escena de la tortura con ratas, o el reencuentro del protagonista con su antigua amante. ist meiner Meinung nach eine Pflichtlektüre und 2021 im Verlag Ullstein als Graphic Novel erschienen und von Fido Nesti adaptiert und illustriert worden.Ahora tengo ganas de releer "Un mundo feliz". Para ello me hice con una nueva edición de la colección Letras populares de Cátedra, con una estupenda introducción de 165 páginas a cargo del traductor de la antología poética de Huxley, Jesús Isaías Gómez López. After being deprived of all his morality by betraying Julia, in the very last chapter, Winston is totally surrendered to the party, losing his ability to love and his faith in his own humanity. He slips his days away by sitting in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, where political criminals gather and wait for their execution. He is psychologically broken, so he finally starts to think in Newspeak. He doesn’t feel the same towards himself or Julia anymore; nor does she. Winston whispers he loves big brother. And that, is the last state of self-regulating. He ceases to be an individual and becomes part of the collective mass of the cult, being proof of true power is power over human beings, over the body, but above all, over the mind —to the point that you believe, with your whole heart, that two plus two makes five. In 1984, George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, the world has been split up into three super-states: I read 1984, the original George Orwell novel, twice: once in 2010 and again in 2017 as we were preparing to film our Literary Gladiators discussion about it during our 6th season. Charlie brought the graphic novel to my attention and nominated it for our channel's Roundtable Read. It won the main vote and became the graphic text that we would read and either review or discuss. Here is my written review, where as the video review will be released with the other contributors. His memory has put him in danger, as he recalls having seen proof, before it was destroyed years ago, of the Party having told a lie: a newspaper article, since re-written, proving that three Party members who had testified to betraying the Party, and who were later executed for it, were innocent. Memories like these cause Winston to constantly fear he will be found out by the Thought Police, that he will be captured and tortured into a confession, and subsequently killed.