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’It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101...

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Writer

George Orwell

Language

English

ISBN

9780241978634

Number of pages

326

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esracann.

04.05.2023

04.05.2023

Günümüz Türiye'sine ışık tutan, tüyleri diken diken eden bir kitap. Okurken "bu kadar da olmaz" dediğim her ne varsa hepsini yaşattılar, sağ olsun. Distopik evrenler her zaman içine çekmiştir zaten beni ama 1984 başka. Acı ama gerçek bir tecrübeydi. Bir daha okuyabilir miyim? Sanmam. Ağır, özümsenmesi zor ve sarsıcı bir kitap.


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Güneş

03.05.2023

03.05.2023

Muhteşem bir kitap ben 2 sefer okudum. Kütüphanede olması gereken kitaplardandır. Sürükleyici ve düşündüren hatta korkutan bir kitap. :)


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befe

07.04.2023

07.04.2023

Düşünmek şimdilik suç değilken düşüncelerimizin ortasında 1984 distopyasını her zaman bulundurmamız gerekiyor. George Orwell’ın düşünen insanlara bir teşekkür niteliğinde yazdığı 1984, aslında düşünmenin sadece dayatılanı düşünmek olmadığını bilen insanların asla unutmayacağı bir kitap.

1984 - George Orwell

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” 
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” 
“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” 
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” 
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” 
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” 
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” 
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  
“It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.”
“It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.” 
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” 
“But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith.”
“If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones
“Sanity is not statistical.” 
“Where there is equality, there can be sanity.” 
“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” 
“Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying.”
“To die hating them, that was freedom.”