What Orwell's '1984' tells us about today's world, 70 years after it was published
- Written by Stephen Groening, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington
The dominant reading of George Orwell's dystopian novel, "1984" has been that it was a dire prediction of what could be. Denis Hamel Côté, CC BY-SASeventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian fiction.
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