"I do not believe that the society that I have described in 1984 necessarily becomes a reality, but I do believe that something similar can exist," 

Orwell wrote after his novel was published. It was 1948, and reality has been in charge of turning that piece of science fiction into a manifesto of reality.

Double thinking, maintaining two contradictory ideas at the same time; The Thought Police; the Ministry of Love, which deals with pain, despair and annihilates all dissenters; the Ministry of Peace that unleashes the war, ...

Reading "1984," George Orwell's claustrophobic fable of totalitarianism, still packs a punch.

 

An essential novel more current than ever.