1985: What Happens After Big Brother Dies
AuthorGyörgy Dalos
LanguageHungarian, English
PublisherPantheon Books
Publication date
1983
ISBN0394537807
Preceded by1984 

1985 is a sequel to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.[1]

Written by Hungarian author György Dalos, originally published in 1983, this novel begins with the death of Big Brother and reflects an intermediate period between 1984 and a more optimistic future characterized with a decline in orthodoxy of the totalitarian system, struggles of the ensuing powers and the near destruction of the Oceania air force by Eurasia.[2][3]

Significance

Critic Pat Harrington found the novel's emphasis on the Thought Police embracing a kind of "openness" and pressuring Party cliques through public opinion to be a prescient look at what Mikhail Gorbachev was to attempt in the former Soviet Union with glasnost and perestroika.[4] Rather than ruling by fear, the secret police would attempt to control "the public sphere," bringing people to their cause of their own free will.

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References

  1. ^ Dalos, György (1983). 1985: What Happens After Big Brother Dies. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780394537801.
  2. ^ "1985". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. ^ goodthinkful (3 March 2009). "1985: What Happens After Big Brother Dies". We are the Dead. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  4. ^ Harrington, Pal (30 December 2014). "Review: 1985 – A Sequel to George Orwell's 1984 by Gyorgy Dalos". CounterCultureUK.com. Retrieved 6 April 2021.


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