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«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 , escriba Orwell despus de publicar su novela. Corra el ao 1948, y la realidad se ha encargado de convertir esa pieza -entonces de ciencia ficcin- en un manifiesto de la realidad. UNO DE LOS 5 LIBROS MS IMPORTANTES DE LOS LTIMOS 125 AOS SEGN EL NEW YORK TIMES «Est entre mis libros favoritos, lo leo una y otra vez . -Margaret Atwood En el ao 1984 Londres es una ciudad lgubre en la que la Polica del Pensamiento controla de forma asfixiante la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith es un pen de este engranaje perverso y su cometido es reescribir la historia para adaptarla a lo que el Partido considera la versin oficial de los hechos. Hasta que decide replantearse la verdad del sistema que los gobierna y somete. La presente edicin, avalada por The Orwell Estate, sigue fielmente el texto definitivo de las obras completas del autor, fijado por el profesor Peter Davison. Incluye un eplogo del novelista Thomas Pynchon, que aporta al anlisis del libro su personal visin de los totalitarismos y la paranoia en el mundo moderno. Miguel Temprano Garca firma la soberbia traduccin, que es la ms reciente de la obra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 behaviours 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.
