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1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a best seller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts", anyone?).

With a discerning eye and acerbic wit, Lynskey examines how various doomsday tropes and predictions in literature, art, music, and film have arisen from contemporary anxieties, whether they be comets, pandemics, world wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Y2K, or the climate emergency. Far from being grim, Lynskey guides readers through a rich array of fascinating stories and surprising facts, allowing us to keep company with celebrated works of art and the people who made them, from H.G. Wells, Jack London, W.B. Yeats and J.G. Ballard to The Twilight Zone, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator.

Dorian Lynskey investiga las influencias que confluyeron en la escritura de 1984, desde las experiencias de Orwell en la Guerra Civil española y en el Londres de la guerra hasta su fascinación por la ficción utópica y distópica. Lynskey explora el fenómeno en que se convirtió la novela cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1949 y las formas cambiantes en que se ha leído desde entonces, revelando cómo la historia puede orientar a la ficción y cómo la ficción puede influir en la historia.