Investigates the influences that came together in the writing of 1984 from Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War and war-time London to his book's roots in utopian and dystopian fiction, and explores the phenomenon that the novel became on publication and the changing ways in which it has been read over the decades since
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Type
Bog
Sprog
engelsk
Emneord
Emnetal
99.4 Orwell, George
Beskrivelse
Indhold: Introduction ; Part One (History stopped ; Utopia fever ; The world we're going down into ; Wells-world ; Radio Orwell ; The heretic ; Inconvenient facts ; Every book is a failure ; The clocks strike thirteen) ; Part Two (Black millennium ; So damned scared ; Orwellmania ; Oceania 2.0) ; Afterword
ISBN
9781509890736
Omfang
xix, 355 sider, tavler
Forlag
Picador
Målgruppe
alment niveauvoksenmaterialer