Paperback, 251 pages
English language
Published Jan. 16, 1981 by Penguin Books.
Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading Party has become a classic not the least because of its intellectual coherence. First published in 1949, it retains as much relevance today as it had then. --back cover
Classique de la dystopie, c'est un livre qui traverse les décennies tout en restant toujours d'actualité. Il montre à quel point la manipulation des masses est aisée. Il est perturbant, car lourd de réflexions (comme l'abrutissement de la population, l'expurgation d'une langue, etc). Il donne matière à un questionnement permanent de qui, où et dans quoi on est...
