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Kafka goes to China

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By Jeffrey Wasserstrom
| Engelsberg Ideas
In a year ending with a 5, a talented author published an astonishing allegorical work of short fiction. Its plot blurs the line between the human and non-human realms, and many consider it one of his two masterpieces. It is often discussed and sometimes published bundled together with a dystopian tale he wrote later about a man trapped in an oppressive system.
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How George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ predicted the global power shifts now underway

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By Emrah Atasoy, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
| Scroll.in Verified
There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his portrayal of the oppressive aspects of life in Oceania, the superstate in which Nineteen Eighty-Four is set. Today, however, a different feature – which as recently as 2019, some critics dismissed as “obsolete” – is getting more attention: its vision of a world divided into three spheres, controlled by autocratic governments that constantly form and then break alliances.
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How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now

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By Emrah Atasoy, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
| The Conversation Verified
There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his portrayal of the oppressive aspects of life in Oceania, the superstate in which Nineteen Eighty-Four is set. Today, however, a different feature – which as recently as 2019, some critics dismissed as “obsolete” – is getting more attention: its vision of a world divided into three spheres, controlled by autocratic governments that constantly form and then break alliances.
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