TY - BOOK ID - 71203339 TI - The ministry of truth : a biography of George Orwell's 1984 PY - 2019 SN - 9781509890736 1509890734 9781509890743 1509890742 PB - London Picador DB - UniCat KW - Orwell, George KW - Science fiction, English KW - Dystopias in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Orwell, George, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71203339 AB - George Orwell's last novel has become one of the iconic narratives of the modern world. Its ideas have become part of the language - from 'Big Brother' to the 'Thought Police', 'Doublethink', and 'Newspeak' - and seem ever more relevant in the era of 'fake news' and 'alternative facts', while the cultural influence of 1984 ranges from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids Tale to David Bowie's Diamond Dogs, from the launch of Apple Mac to the reality TV landmark, Big Brother. In this book, Dorian Lynskey investigates Orwell's formative experiences from the Spanish Civil War and war-time London to his book's roots in utopian and dystopian fiction. And he explores the phenomenon that the novel became on publication and the changing ways in which it has been read over the decades since. ER -