Министерство правды

The Ministry of Truth. How the novel "1984" became the cultural code of generations

"I'm not going to claim that the novel is as relevant as ever, but gosh, it's much more relevant than we might want."
Dorian Lynskey, journalist, writer
From this book you will learn how George Orwell's most famous and in many ways prophetic novel "1984" was created. The author carefully analyzes not only the story of the birth of this iconic dystopia, telling us about Orwell himself, his life and the context of the time when the novel was written. But it also explains what happened after the release of the book, how attitudes toward it changed, and how it eventually took an important place in popular culture. Linsky discusses how it happened that the numbers 1984 are familiar and subconsciously understandable even to those who have not read this work.
Orwell's history has been and continues to be addressed to this day. His books are sold in huge editions all over the world. Orwell coined and gave life to the phrases "Big Brother" and "Cold War", without which we can no longer imagine the 20th century. And meanwhile, "1984" is not a book about despair, but a book about the hope that all the nightmares described in it will never come true.

Translator Alexey Andreev