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«1984» (also known as «One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Four») — is a dystopia by the English writer George Orwell. For the first half-century after its publication, this novel was perceived as a stinging satire of communist regimes. But now, the prophetic details of the world Orwell constructed are becoming the realities of the modern decommunised globalised world. Transnational corporations, propaganda media and social networks seem to have adopted George Orwell's fantastic findings: &Big Brother is watching you», &Freedom is slavery», &Peace is war»."

The novel tells the story of Winston Smith and his degradation under the influence of the totalitarian state in which he lives. It is the most famous and most quoted dystopian novel in literature and is on a par with Evgeny Zamyatin's We, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. In 2009, the influential British newspaper The Times declared 1984 the most important book published in the last 60 years.

There was a time when the novel 1984 was perceived as so revolutionary and seemed so politically dangerous that it was banned by some libraries in the United States, not to mention totalitarian regimes.

Author: Ruslan Drapaliuk.
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