1984: The Graphic Novel

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In 1984,London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called the Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. The thing is that this graphic version provides an almost complete text of the original book (not simplifying or shortening it much, so the reading is really long and serious, as it is basically the same Orwell’s text), plus it dispels this dullness and “anchors” us to the story with eye-catching artistic techniques. Therefore, it represents the full story of “1984” only in a somewhat more entertaining and easily-digestible form. It's the 75th year of Independence for the world's largest democracy 'Happy Independence Day'; and Ironically I'm reading the graphical adaptation of 1984. The titular year has come and gone, and the world is moving towards more freedoms & progress. But in some ways you could say we have less freedom & progress. We are seemingly headed towards an amalgamation of 1984 7 Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; with some Fahrenheit 451 added to the mix. Si la obra original me parece genial, la novela gráfica lo ratifica. De 1984 ya está todo dicho, creo, y si me decidí por la novela gráfica es por pasárselo a un par de personas a las que con el texto original no hay forma, con dibujinos... veremos. I read 1984, the original George Orwell novel, twice: once in 2010 and again in 2017 as we were preparing to film our Literary Gladiators discussion about it during our 6th season. Charlie brought the graphic novel to my attention and nominated it for our channel's Roundtable Read. It won the main vote and became the graphic text that we would read and either review or discuss. Here is my written review, where as the video review will be released with the other contributors.

Tocaba volver a leerla, pero en otro formato y en una nueva edición, con dibujos del artista autodidacta Fido Nesti.Fido Nesti has faithfully adapted the oppressive, hopeless feeling which was generated by the Book. The visuals are simple, but hauntingly beautiful, possessing a rustic, psychedelic quality, and giving you the ever pervading feeling of the walls closing in on you. Entre lo que olvidé (el ambiente deprimente del Londres de 1984, la nuevalengua y el término Socing), encontré pasajes y términos que todavía recordaba: el concepto de Hermano Mayor (Gran Hermano en la actualidad); el libro de la hermandad cuyos títulos son los lemas del partido, "la guerra es paz, la libertad es esclavitud, la ignorancia es fuerza" (que yo estaba convencida que era más como "la ignorancia es el poder"); el prota que tiene la certeza de que los proletarios se rebelarán en un futuro contra el partido se me quedó grabado a fuego desde la primera lectura, así como la escena de la tortura con ratas, o el reencuentro del protagonista con su antigua amante. I was very happy to get acquainted with this very interesting artistic representation of the classical book and simultaneously refresh my memory about the original text (because, as I said, it is repeated in this book almost word by word to a large extent). Por una parte, que el protagonista Winston en una sociedad distópica ha jincao más que yo en una sociedad pandémica. With evocative, immersive art from Fido Nesti, this vision of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece provides a new perspective for longtime fans but is also an accessible entry point for young readers and adults who have yet to discover the iconic story that is still so relevant today.

Ahora tengo ganas de releer "Un mundo feliz". Para ello me hice con una nueva edición de la colección Letras populares de Cátedra, con una estupenda introducción de 165 páginas a cargo del traductor de la antología poética de Huxley, Jesús Isaías Gómez López. Sin embargo, primero me terminaré esa otra distopía de Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", que publicó el mes pasado Reservoir Books con ilustraciones bien originales de figuras geométricas de la catalana María Corte. Eastasia: Smaller than the other two, comprised of China and the countries to the south of it, the Japanese islands, and a large but fluctuating portion of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet.La verdad que de mi lectura conjunta distópica Orwell-Huxley, creía que no dejaba tanto poso de desesperanza Orwell, y sí más Huxley, pero releído el primero desde luego no lo calificaría de una lectura optimista y agradable, aunque sí muy instructiva, pues te muestra cómo se sustenta un régimen totalitario, y lo que se cuece dentro de éste. In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called the Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Only by making sure the population was loyal and too stupid to realize it, the real focus, therefore the pressure, is on the members of the Party itself —especially the Outer Party ( the hands) controlled by the members of the Inner Party ( the brains); who work for the Big Brother on the head. Few others works have had such a profound effect on the collective psyche of mankind; and painted a plausible future, which is equal parts realistic and horrifying.

I should say here that I am not a fan of the original book. I mean: I consider George Orwell’s “1984” one of the GREATEST and most important books written in world literature overall, in all time periods, considering its visionary insights, cultural/historical significance, and landmark messages/memes/characters, but I also think that this is a very boring and dull story. One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Seems like Orwell himself was frightened by the ending his novel had, worrying for posterity and warning them to not pass by easily.In 1984, George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, the world has been split up into three super-states: His memory has put him in danger, as he recalls having seen proof, before it was destroyed years ago, of the Party having told a lie: a newspaper article, since re-written, proving that three Party members who had testified to betraying the Party, and who were later executed for it, were innocent. Memories like these cause Winston to constantly fear he will be found out by the Thought Police, that he will be captured and tortured into a confession, and subsequently killed. The Three-Year Plan mentioned in the novel is principally similar to Stalin’s Five-year Plans, which was a process of increasing industrial production. However, it is doubtful if they actually ever expanded production. Giving a false sense of increasing the quality of life by announcing increasing the ration of food or certain items when they were actually decreased, they kept the population satisfied and oblivious to that and of course, celebrating the event.

Je n'ai pas encore lu le roman (mais ce sera fait car c'était la seconde partie de mon Noël), je découvre donc l'histoire avec cet album (bon bien-sûr j'en ai beaucoup entendu parler et connaissais le contenu dans les grande lignes vu le grand classique que c'est). Oceania: Completed by the absorption of the British Empire by the United States of America. Comprised of the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa. Hacía tiempo que había leído esta distopía, con unos veintipocos años, junto a la de Aldous Huxley, "Un mundo feliz". ist meiner Meinung nach eine Pflichtlektüre und 2021 im Verlag Ullstein als Graphic Novel erschienen und von Fido Nesti adaptiert und illustriert worden. By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU.The conflict between Winston’s essential humanity and the dehumanizing policies of the Party is developed when Winston’s coworker, Julia, hands Winston a slip of paper. Winston has suspected Julia is following him, and he views her with a mixture of desire and paranoia, so he expects the paper to reveal a warning or a coded threat from a Party spy. Instead, it says, “I love you,” and Winston and Julia begin their affair, setting Winston’s personal desires on a collision course with Party ideology and raising the stakes of how far Winston will go to maintain his autonomy. In the end, of course, in Room 101, there really is nowhere to hide. As long as 1984 is forever relevant, adaptations will be always necessary. The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one. Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.”