In her recent essay in the New York Times (January 17, 2017), "Why '1984' is a 2017 Must-Read," Michiko Kakutani writes:
The
dystopia described in George Orwell’s nearly 70-year-old novel “1984”
suddenly feels all too familiar. A world in which Big Brother (or maybe
the National Security Agency) is always listening in, and high-tech
devices can eavesdrop in people’s homes. (Hey, Alexa,
what’s up?) A world of endless war, where fear and hate are drummed up
against foreigners, and movies show boatloads of refugees dying at sea. A
world in which the government insists that reality is not “something
objective, external, existing in its own right” — but rather, “whatever
the Party holds to be truth is truth.”
Please join H-WPL Readers for a lively and timely discussion of this classic novel.
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