1985In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right. |
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User Review - baswood - LibraryThingDigging down through the list of unread books on my shelves; the next one to surface was 1985 which was published in 1978. It has the feel of something being cobbled together, probably stemming from a ... Read full review
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingThe prose is clear, and Anthony Burgess' distopian future is a more right-wing version of a country where the evil labour unions have paralyzed the economy. Orwell's world had a more generalized view ... Read full review