1984

Por George Orwell

Para controlar todo no basta con apropiarse solo de la voluntad y de la conciencia de los individuos, hay que hacerse dueño de su lenguaje. En 1984 encontramos al líder único cuya presencia es antes que nada una abstracción, la negación del individuo, la sustracción de la información: el Gran Hermano, el Big Brother. 1984 es al mismo tiempo una advertencia y un deseo: advertencia de habitar un mundo cerrado donde lo Otro es indispensable, y donde al mismo tiempo el individuo ha desaparecido. Pero también se trata de un deseo de que la realidad sea de otro modo, acaso más atroz, pero también menos aburrida. Orwell ha construuido una metáfora del imaginario social del siglo XX al describir un país carcelario, vigilado por un panóctico, es decir, un lugar desde donde es posible verlo todo y a todos. La vigencia de esta obra es incontrovertible.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Libros Selectos
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 16 nov 2013
• ISBN: 9781940281674

George Orwell

George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame. 

Comentarios para 1984

[blackfeli · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

Capítulo 4 incompleto; decepcionante quién ha realizado la distribución del libro

[Santiago · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Una obra de arte magnífica. La leí 3 veces por quedarme traumado jajaja. Es un gran recordatorio de los límites que nunca deberemos cruzar, dejar a la mente como una caja negra. Me encanta comparar este libro con el juego de cp2077. Aunque antítesis entre sus universos, ambos tratan el tema más delicado para mi: el control y sugestión mental.

[Luis Miguel Erased Prz · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Es un libro que todos deben leer, a mis casi 30 años me deja pensando mucho. Ojalá lo hubiera leído antes.

[Alejandra Rivera Quiñones · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Escalofriante en verdad, aterrador lo mucho que se aproxima al futuro y lo que pudiese pasar, sin duda la PEOR distopia para vivir.

[JuanMarioEstrada · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Me gusto la narrativa te lleva en momentos es un poco monotona y hace que pierdas referencias. Me impacto porque son situaciones que algunos dictadores en latinoamercia estan generando de manera muy parecida

[eric arguello · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

La facilidad de un gobierno sin escrúpulos por el simple hecho de mantener el poder !!

Por increíble que parezca este libro revela ciertos rasgos de comportamiento que vemos en algunos gobiernos, incluidos el nuestro en México.

[abrahamm · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

buena lectura y muy compleja, deja un final cerrado que tal vez no era necesario, pero me gusto

[Mara Hola · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

No se puede leer. No se puede leer. No se puede leer

[Juan Ramón Pacheco · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Cuando Winston conoce a Julia por primera vez. Buen libro

[Ilse Moros · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

No puedo entender el porque los libros que están en mi biblioteca y ya fueron comprados, el sistema no me permite leerlos. Ya pague por ellos y deberían estar disponibles para mi lectura.
Por favor resolver el inconveniente. Gracias

[Itachi066 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Dystopia defined. The ultimate face of humanity may very well be this.

[SebastianValenciaGalindo · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

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[Ernani De Souza Esteves · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

muito bom

[QHIM98 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Este es uno de los libros selectos míos. Lo recomiendo mucho

[s.sally · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Its like a deem in its way to be a reality nowadays

[Omar Lozada · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

No se puede leer. Solo hasta la página 234 inicia

[arizonaflame · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

George Orwell had amazing insight. This book will never go out of style. It is disturbing, frigthening and brutal. I experience such a widerange of emotion reading this book mostly because, it is not far from reality especially when you think back on our history. It is a must read for anyone.

[marlene9nl · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

It has been a very long time since I've read this book, but I do remember that I loved it. I think I even read it twice. Back in the days you did not have many of those kind of stories. Now , especially after The Hunger Games, although that series was definitely not the first of that genre, as some have you believe ;) But it became a hype and there are so many A dystopian series now.

This is a standalone book and it pictures a world where everyone lives in fear of Big brother. Yo know you are always watched. I highly recommend this, especially to younger readers! Great read.

[shanaqui_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Depressing, and worrying. I read this first what feels like an awful long time ago -- if I was in my teens when I first read it, I'd be surprised. It's amazing how influential it is, how much our culture references it. And how little people actually know about it, if quizzed.

[wilwarin_1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Great and important matter that was really interesting, but I didn't like the writing style.

[bongo_x_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This has to be the book that made the biggest impression on me. It literally changed my life.

[mephistia · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I've heard a lot about 1984 and Brave New World (by Aldous Huxley), and decided to read them.

1984 was well-written. The plot, the characterizations, everything was well-constructed. In fact, it was so well constructed and written that it's final achievement, a pervading hopelessness and a sort of apathy-induced terror linger long after the final page is finished. It is, without a doubt, one of the most depressing books I have ever read.

I gave it 4 stars because it is well-written and beautifully executed. I would give it 5 stars, if it weren't for the fact that it is such a depressing piece of literature, leaving one with a sort of desperate futility toward the outcome of power, politics, and the possible future imagined therein.

If you enjoy social commentary, if you relish books that predict chilling futures and have unnerving parallels to reality as we know it, then this is the book for you.

If, however, you prefer your fiction to be an escape and a pleasure, not a moral or political lesson, then avoid this book at all costs.

[salgalruns · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I suppose I should start by saying that this book is the complete antithesis of who I am as a person. I am all about creativity, combined with happy bubbly things. Yeah, Orwell and I aren't really a match made in heaven as this book is anything but that.

Most folks I've talked to have read this book in high school or college. Not me, and I'm actually glad I never did. I can't honestly imagine a pimply hormonal teen getting as much out of this as an adult who lives a life of bosses, paychecks, taxes, insurance payments, and society in general. Unfortunately, when I break it down as such, perhaps Orwell is just hitting a little too close to home, especially these days. When you think of the number of ways that we're tracked now - via location services on cell phones, iPads, computers...when every government agency tracks you and then this information (correct or not) seems to find its way to a Google search? Yeah, maybe Orwell knew something we didn't?

As for the story itself, I understand that it's listed as a classic, but seriously...this is sort of horrifically scary, right????? I mean, we've got some torture going on, major mind control, and who the heck knows which people are on which side and who you can trust? I actually found myself liking Winston at the beginning because, let's face it, he's narrating, and he seems rational. However, toward the end? I was almost convinced he WAS delusional and psychotic. Thanks again, George, for making me wonder about reality. You'd think I would have bonded with Julia, but she was basically all about the sex. I just didn't see much other use for her other than to provide an opportunity for a change of scenery.

Mind you, with all the twistedness of the story, the most horrific part was the scene in Room 101. Winston and I would have had the EXACT SAME experience here, and I was almost screaming in my car as I listened to the audiobook of this. Wanted to die.

Orwell summed up his psychotic thriller/classic/horror novel with one of the best quotes around. He's a genius. A twisted, demented, scary one, but genius.

[kidsisyphus · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This upset me so much when I read it in high school that I vowed to never read it again. I have honored that promise thus far.

[melissarochelle_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Did Orwell really think that the world would change THAT much in 35 years? It was published in 1949...it doesn't seem possible that the world would become this negative utopia in just three decades.

[pussreboots · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Read on a bus from Mexico City to Morelia.

[tanya8dogearedcopy · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

For those who have not read “1984” or read it and forgotten it, “1984” is a novel published in 1949 about the totalitarian society that George Orwell imagined in place by 1984. Superficially, it is an expression of the post-war zeitgeist, which was still tainted with the bitter after-taste of Nazism, Fascism and, confronted with new fears of Stalinism and The Atomic Age. On a more academic level, it is a political treatise about citizen complacency and, the mechanics and motives for power. The story itself contains finely wrought tension and sere descriptions of time, place, and character. There is a horrific quality to the story and you need to remind yourself that, this is a work of fiction. This is a near definitive narration of a novel, SP shaping the text with nuance and boldness alike. Small narration and production issues prevented me from grading this higher: A slight lisp tended to spike against the eardrums a bit, causing me to change out headsets to more forgiving speakers; The narrator sounded a slightly rushed in the final tracks; The overall recording is mastered at a very high volume causing me to lower the gain and; finally, there wasn’t an auditory cue to delineate the end of the story from the Appendix (even a longer pause would have been nice.)

Redacted from the original blog review at dog eared copy, 1984, 05/17/2011. Blog post was based on a journal entry of January 2009.

[barb_h_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Interesting and scary view of how things can get out of control when the government oversteps its boundaries and personal freedom is no longer allowed. For the most part I liked it, but was kind of slow and dry in some areas. (Audiobook)

[teaswirls · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Amazing. The transition from calm to chaos in the last third of the book was perfect and unexpected. The last hundred or so pages my stomach was clenched and I couldn't stop turning the page.

[kcoleman428 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This is an amazing, but terrifying book. Amazing what Orwell came up with, and how paralell it is to certain things we see today in society.