Winston's government job of literally rewriting history does pair nicely with a book I read recently, The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, that shows the results of Stalin executing his real and imagined enemies and having them scribbled, airbrushed, and cropped out of photos in the official archives. And at the end of the day, hope is all that you are entitled to possess; everything else, belongs to the party. 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.

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. In Oceania, as there are today with the upper, middle, and lower classes, there are three classes in Oceanic society. These have direct parallels to the three classes of our current society, in that one can either be an Inner Party member (the upper class: the elites of the Party, who run everything from the shadows), an Outer Party member (the middle class: mind-controlled drones that do the Party's bidding), or what's known as a "prole". Proles are the lower class, and make up over 80% of the Oceanic population. They are not controlled by the Party at all, because they're so uneducated and poor that the Party does not see them as a threat. They see no need to control their thoughts, because they see them as incapable of thought. Excelente adaptación a novela gráfica de la obra cumbre de George Orwell, pseudónimo del escritor Eric A. Blair. Estoy a punto de terminar Cisnes salvajes y me ha impactado leerlos en paralelo y apreciar las similitudes de la tiranía de Mao con el mundo que se plantea en 1984, especialmente en lo referido a fomentar la incultura (“la ignorancia es la fuerza”) con la “Revolución cultural” que sucedió en China. Pone los pelos de punta. Fido Nesti has faithfully adapted the oppressive, hopeless feeling which was generated by the Book. The visuals are simple, but hauntingly beautiful, possessing a rustic, psychedelic quality, and giving you the ever pervading feeling of the walls closing in on you.The story is the same as the original book and adapted very faithfully, which I appreciate. 1984 is set in a dystopian society that reflects the direction that the Soviet Union was heading in the late 1940s in what is known as "Oceania." Stalin's Soviet Union is applied to the United Kingdom, as the world has become tyrannical and overseen by a figure known as Big Brother, meant to reflect Stalin himself. The central character is Winston Smith, who works for the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, which is Newspeak is known as "Minitrue." In this society, the authorities control everything and everyone is expected to do as their told. If they are obedient, it is going to be a lovely society and a great state of mind from their perspective, but we all know that this is a dystopian society that no one in their right mind wants to live. This is a society where wars are declared and are revered and hanging traitors is viewed as an event as prominent as The Super Bowl or The World Cup. George Orwell made this a terrible world for a reason! Anyway, it’s a very recent book (published first in Brasil in 2020 and then in the UK and USA in 2021, so I suppose people will start talking about it soon). I very am glad I discovered it among the first readers. Onto the book itself; 1984 is written to be dreary, depressing and mind numbing read, by design. Life under the watchful eyes of Big Brother is not a pleasant thing. It's a world of war, scarcity, lies, deceit where every aspect of life of controlled. Even the few scant inches of space inside your noggin is not free from interference from the man. Tocaba volver a leerla, pero en otro formato y en una nueva edición, con dibujos del artista autodidacta Fido Nesti.

Im letzten Jahr durfte ich bereits "Farm der Tiere" und "1984" von George Orwell auf meinen Kanälen vorstellen, woraufhin ich viele Nachrichten von Lesern erhalten habe, die sich anschließend die Weltklassiker gekauft, gelesen und meine Gedanken geteilt haben. ist meiner Meinung nach eine Pflichtlektüre und 2021 im Verlag Ullstein als Graphic Novel erschienen und von Fido Nesti adaptiert und illustriert worden. One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. 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. The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one. Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.”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. By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. 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.

Julia serves as a character foil to Winston, as Orwell compares and contrasts their political philosophies and their styles of resistance. For example, Winston believes that the Party must be resisted and overthrown, but Julia thinks it’s better to evade its authority while pretending to acquiesce to it. Winston, frustrated, tells her she’s “only a rebel from the waist down,” which she takes as a compliment. Your life is worthless, forfeit, crushed. You are the dead; and the only future you can look forwards to is the underside of das boot, forever crushing down on your head.

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.