1984 - Nineteen Eighty-four

Japanese: 1984年 - せんきゅうひゃくはちじゅうよねん(英語表記)Nineteen Eighty-four
1984 - Nineteen Eighty-four
A satirical futuristic novel by British novelist G. Orwell, published in 1949. His previous work, Animal Farm, was a scathing critique of Stalin's dictatorship in the form of an animal fable, but 1984 explores this theme even more thoroughly, depicting the world of 1984, in which the three superpowers of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia are in conflict. In Oceania, ruled by a dictator called the "Great Brothers," the "Ministry of Peace" wages war, the "Ministry of Love" exercises ideological control, and the "Ministry of Plenty" brings poverty. All information and history are falsified, erased, and fabricated by the "Ministry of Truth" at the dictator's whim, the actions of the people are constantly projected on telescreens, and thoughts are confined to the framework of "Newspeak," a new language created for the convenience of those in power to control their thoughts, and are manipulated at the whim of the government. Here, the author expresses a sense of despair about the terrifying future of totalitarianism through the fate of the protagonist, Winston Smith, a low-ranking bureaucrat working in the Ministry of Truth.

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Japanese:
イギリスの小説家 G.オーウェルの風刺的未来小説。 1949年刊。前作『動物農場』では動物寓話の形によって,スターリンの独裁政治を痛烈に批判したが,『1984年』でもこのテーマをさらに徹底的に追求し,オセアニア,ユーラシア,イースタシアの三超大国が対立する 1984年の世界を描いている。「偉大な兄弟」という独裁者が君臨するオセアニアでは,「平和省」が戦争を,「愛省」が思想統制を遂行し,「豊富省」が窮乏をもたらしている。一切の情報,歴史は「真理省」によって独裁者の思うままに改竄,抹消,捏造されて,国民の行動はテレスクリーンに絶えず映し出され,思考も,権力者による思想統制に都合のよいようにつくられた新言語である「ニュースピーク」という枠にはめこまれ,政府の思うままにあやつられてしまう。作者はここで,真理省に勤務する下級官吏の主人公ウィンストン・スミスの運命を通して,恐るべき未来全体主義への絶望感を表現している。

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