/lit/ - Literature

>keeping fit is stalinist

Why is British literature so fucking shit from 1945-1999? Besides George Orwell, it's a fucking desert until you get to Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro.

why do people suck its dick so much?
it's literally just "what if the soviet union WAS BRITISH?!"

the parts that are satire of the CPGB are good
the parts that try to make a broader point about totalitarianism are bad

The damage this book's done to political discourse has been incalculable.

isnt the biggest irony of this book the fact that the book is written for proles?

This book caused irreparable damage to political discourse.

>wake-up one day to find you're suddenly in Oceania
What do?

ITT: Proof that you have read this book

>>16701613
>how do you phrase "Freedom of Speech" so that it doesn't apply to all speech
>dude the people who compare 1984 to the real world are idiots lmao

I have some questions

In this world how is order maintained, how do they keep people accepting double-think and thought crime as normal parts of life? All it would take is a smart group of people to actually start discussing with each other to find out that their "delusional" belief that 2 + 2 = 4 isn't so delusional and maybe the state is wrong. This leads to my other question - how does the state keep people from discussing with eachother? I know the people are allowed to talk but what is stopping them from having intelligent discussions about the state and actually constructing ways to become more free among themselves?

What does /lit/ think of this book?

Is 1984 a meme book?

On January 4th 1946, George Orwell reviewed Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" for the Tribune Newspaper.

Paraphrasing Rayner Heppenstall, he reportedly said "that he was taking it as the model for his next novel."

Three years later, Orwell published 1984.

>>7892594
>What is the best cover of Orwell's 1984?
the original edition, as in most cases

What was in room 101 for Julia?

"WE'VE BEEN SMECKLEDORFED!"

lmao why this niggas book cover look like one of them teen pop youtube lyric videos

Tumblr is Eastasia, and Reddit is Eurasia.

Discuss.

why are people still believeing in communit propaganda CRAP when this pretty much disproved it over 50 years ago ???????????????????????

>there are people on /lit/ who think that this isn't the best dystopian novel ever just because they were forced to read it in highschool and will spout bullshit like Brave New World or We was better just so they can fit into the /lit/ hivemind

I seriously hope you guys don't do this.