1984 (Edición Definitiva Avalada Por the Orwell Estate) (Edición Especial Limitada Con Cantos Pintados) / 1984 (Edition Endorsed by the Orwell Estate) – hinnat ja saatavuus

«No creo que la sociedad que he descrito en 1984 necesariamente llegue a ser una realidad, pero s creo que puede llegar a existir algo parecido , escrib a Orwell despu s de publicar su novela. Corr a el a o 1948, y la realidad se ha encargado de convertir esa pieza -entonces de ciencia ficci n- en un manifiesto de la realidad. UNO DE LOS 5 LIBROS M S IMPORTANTES DE LOS LTIMOS 125 A OS SEG N THE NEW YORK TIMES «Est entre mis libros favoritos, lo leo una y otra vez . --Margaret Atwood En el a o 1984 Londres es una ciudad l gubre en la que la Polic a del Pensamiento controla de forma asfixiante la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith es un pe n de este engranaje perverso y su cometido es reescribir la historia para adaptarla a lo que el Partido considera la versi n oficial de los hechos. Hasta que decide replantearse la verdad del sistema que los gobierna y somete. La presente edici n, avalada por The Orwell Estate, sigue fielmente el texto definitivo de las obras completas del autor, fijado por el profesor Peter Davison. Incluye un ep logo del novelista Thomas Pynchon, que aporta al an lisis del libro su personal visi n de los totalitarismos y la paranoia en el mundo moderno. Miguel Temprano Garc a firma la soberbia traducci n, que es la m s reciente de la obra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ONE OF THE 5 MOST IMORTANT BOOKS IN THE LAST 125 YEARS ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES "Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power."--The New Yorker Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviors within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. Through the Ministry of Truth, the Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Winston Smith spends his days rewriting history to fit the narrative that his government wants citizens to believe. But as the gap between the propaganda he writes and the reality he lives proves too much for Winston to swallow, he begins to seek some form of escape. His desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, tyrannical state illuminates the tendencies apparent in every modern society, and makes vivid the universal predicament of the individual.