The novel that crushes the capacity for critical and emotional thought inherent to the human condition. From the ashes of subjectivity, the ungraspable expands-- and the ungraspable becomes dominant. Dear reader: Big Brother opens his eye, inviting you to step into the machinery of his omnipresent and cruel design, while Winston Smith, the unfortunate protagonist, slides rapidly toward his doom. During the years of World War II, Orwell began to imagine and shape in fictional form the mechanisms that structure the totalitarian universe: the techniques of surveillance and control that prevail in modern societies. He began giving form and substance to what would later be termed "Orwellian"-- a nightmarish world where Big Brother sees, dominates, and destroys all.
