1984

"Greetings from the age of uniformity, the age of loneliness, the age of Big Brother, the age of doublethink," writes Winston Smith in his diary, the rebel, the thought criminal, who refuses to admit that 2x2 can be three or five according to the will of the Party. Perhaps this novel will really be "just" a bitter welcome in the future, an eternal reminder of the totalitarian XX. century, and of course witty satire, like the great role model, Swift's Gulliver. Maybe. But now we still feel in our guts what Big Brother means, thought crime, thought police, new talk, doublethink; and the three slogans of the Oceania Party are eerily familiar: War: Peace Freedom: Servitude Ignorance: Strength And although we can replace many things with real figures, ideas, and institutions of history, the writer's fantasy is the most impressive in this novel; In 1948, sick and disillusioned, Orwell created a novel world that captivates the reader with its chilling reality, even if he says lightly - perhaps too lightly - that Orwell's prediction, thank God, did not come true.