1985

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anuary 3, 1985. The announcement comes over the telescreen: Big Brother is dead. His empire, Oceania, has been defeated in a disastrous air battie and is no more. Only two great powers remain: Eurasia and Eastasia. Behind the scenes Big Sister (Big Brother's widow) struggles with the Thought Police and the army for power, while elsewhere the winds of reform sweep through the remnants of Oceania. Everywhere, under the bitingly humorous hand of György Dalos, George Orwell's chilling world of 1984 seems to be experiencing a thaw, as Orwell's tortured lovers Smith and Júlia, O'Brien the Thought Policeman, Ampleforth the hack poet, and Syme the cynical philologist come alive again. However, when the thaw becomes a revolution as the proles get involved, the now-friendly neighboring empire Eurasia steps in to "restore orderf' If this scenario reminds you of anything, that's no surprise. György Dalos is a child of post-Stalinist Hungary, and no one could have been better placed to write... Tovább

Fülszöveg

anuary 3, 1985. The announcement comes over the telescreen: Big Brother is dead. His empire, Oceania, has been defeated in a disastrous air battie and is no more. Only two great powers remain: Eurasia and Eastasia. Behind the scenes Big Sister (Big Brother's widow) struggles with the Thought Police and the army for power, while elsewhere the winds of reform sweep through the remnants of Oceania. Everywhere, under the bitingly humorous hand of György Dalos, George Orwell's chilling world of 1984 seems to be experiencing a thaw, as Orwell's tortured lovers Smith and Júlia, O'Brien the Thought Policeman, Ampleforth the hack poet, and Syme the cynical philologist come alive again. However, when the thaw becomes a revolution as the proles get involved, the now-friendly neighboring empire Eurasia steps in to "restore orderf' If this scenario reminds you of anything, that's no surprise. György Dalos is a child of post-Stalinist Hungary, and no one could have been better placed to write such an incredibly ingenious successor to Orwell's prophetic növel of the cold war, a hilarious international romari a def fit for toda/s world. György Dalos, born in Hungary in 1943, studied at Moscow University from 1962 to 1967. He was put on trial in his own country in 1968 for "Maoist" activity, expelled from the Hungárián Communist Party, dismissed from work, and put under police surveillance. He makes his living as a translator and alsó has published a collection of his poems. Just as Orwell's originál 1984 could not be published in Hungary, so this book could not. It has come out, however, in Germán, French, and English editions. Vissza