1984

Although it was written over seventy years ago (1949), "1984" is more relevant than ever. Orwell continues his personal critique of society and power. After staging an allegory of the Soviet totalitarian regime in the form of a fairy tale (Animal Farm), he goes further by telling of a dystopian future, between science fiction and reality, where the world is in the hands of a few superpowers that govern everything and all, establishing limits and rules to be respected. The "Big Brother", omniscient, with his eye watches over the people and knows everything. The military regime is ruthless and uses torture and death to establish order and enforce the laws. People (suspected of conspiracy) simply disappeared overnight, annihilated, “VAPORIZED was the usual word”. «Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past» Set in 1984, the novel tells a dystopian future, generated following a third world war, where tolitarisms reign. The post-atomic world now appears divided between 3 great superpowers, in perennial war with each other: • Eurasia, (includes Europe - no UK - Russia and North Africa), where the ideal of "Neobolshevism" reigns (derived from the Soviet Communist Party) • Eastasia (includes India, China, Mongolia, Japan), where the cult centered on the annihilation of human conscience reigns • Oceania (includes the Americas, UK, Australia, southern and western Africa), where English socialism reigns, here called "IngSoc" Meanwhile, a group of revolutionaries, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State (The Brotherhood), under the guidance of Goldstein (“the Enemy of the People”), attempts to destabilize the Order imposed by the Party. «WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.» A world based on the total control of the human being, from his emotions to his actions. Science fiction or foresight? N.B. Book in full version, enriched by the author's autobiography (extracted from the preface to the Ukrainian version of Animal Farm).