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Breathtakingly brilliant, like the crystal glass buildings of the One State - in Natasha Randall's 2007 translation (older ones may differ a lot).
Seamlessly switching between beauty and horror:
“In the morning, the sun is rosy, transparent, warm gold. And the air itself is a little rosy, all steeped in the sun’s gentle blood.”
Laden with oxymorons: simultaneously Utopia and dystopia.
Polychromatic, synaesthetic, hypnotic, and often blurring reality and dreams.
Profound and prophetic, from a century ...more
Seamlessly switching between beauty and horror:
“In the morning, the sun is rosy, transparent, warm gold. And the air itself is a little rosy, all steeped in the sun’s gentle blood.”
Laden with oxymorons: simultaneously Utopia and dystopia.
Polychromatic, synaesthetic, hypnotic, and often blurring reality and dreams.
Profound and prophetic, from a century ...more
1984 was published in 1949. Brave New World in 1931. Of course, long before either of these Brits could get spooked by machine-like totalitarian communism, Russians were already getting spooked by their own country. In the 20s, Mikhail Bulgakov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, to name a couple whose objections and subversiveness guaranteed that their finest works went unpublished in their lifetimes. And even earlier, only just after the revolution in 1920, Yevgeny Zamyatin anticipated much of that
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