Name: 1984 (in Spanish)
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Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9786073154628

Type

Physical Book

Author

George Orwell

Publisher

Lumen

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

408

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9786073154628

Edited in

México

Edition No.

Synopsis "1984 (in Spanish)"

"No creo que la sociedad que he descrito en 1984 necesariamente llegue a ser una realidad, pero sí creo que puede llegar a existir algo parecido", escribía George Orwell después de publicar su emblemática novela. Corría el año 1948, y la realidad se ha encargado de convertir esa pieza entonces de ciencia ficción en un retrato magistral de nuestro tiempo. Ahora, cumplidos más de treinta años de la fecha fatídica indicada por el gran autor, Lumen vuelve a proponer la trágica historia de Winston Smith en la lúgubre atmósfera de un Londres fantasmal de 1984. El cometido de Winston es reescribir la historia para adaptarla a lo que el Partido considera la versión oficial de los hechos, hasta que decide replantearse la verdad del sistema que lo gobierna y lo somete. Acompaña el texto un prólogo que Umberto Eco escribió en 1984 para los lectores italianos. "Aquí ya no estamos solo ante lo que habitualmente reconocemos como "literatura" e identificamos con la buena escritura. Aquí estamos, repito, ante energía visionaria. Y no todas las visiones se refieren al futuro, o al Más Allá." Umberto Eco

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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