1984-George Orwell

The novel 1984 is considered one of the classics of world literature, and hardly any language is without more than one translation of it. This novel presented a picture of the totalitarian society governed by the single party in an innovative way, both in literature and in thought. Big Brother, the Ministry of Hate, Hate Week, Thought Police, Doublethink, the Spies' League, the three slogans of the party: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength... These are the vocabulary of this society ruled by oppression, torture, falsification of facts and history, which turns society into a herd driven to hard labor, miserable life, wars, and prisons. A group of party members who, in turn, are under surveillance, counting their breaths and transforming them, in the name of defending the homeland and the ruling party, into individuals subjected to a hierarchy based on fear. Even the parents fear their children, whom the education supervised by the party has turned into spies, and party members behave with complete submission after knowing the fate of every rebel. But within this terrible machine of repression, rebellions continue. They are the rebellions that distinguish the human spirit, which sees freedom as the highest value of humanity. And sees that love is more beautiful and greater than hatred, and that human uniqueness is what unleashes creativity. A novel read again and again for its literary creativity and its powerful depiction of the ugliness of a society lacking freedom. Number of pages: 312 Publisher: Dar Al Tanweer Author: George Orwell