Dorian Lynskey
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“Margaret Atwood started writing The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale in West Berlin in the spring of 1984. Like Orwell when he began Nineteen Eighty-Four, she was in her early forties and she knew exactly what she wanted to say. The novel originated with a file of newspaper cuttings she had begun collecting while living in England, covering such topics as the religious right, prisons in Iran, falling birth rates, Nazi sexual politics, polygamy and credit cards. She let these diverse observations ferment, like compost, until a story grew out of them. Her travels in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, where she experienced 鈥渢he wariness, the feeling of being spied on, the silences, the changes of subject, the oblique ways in which people might convey information,鈥 nourished the novel, too, as did her adolescent obsession with dystopias and World War Two.”
― The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984
― The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984
“Why did Orwell criticise communism so much more energetically than fascism? Because he had seen it up close, and because its appeal was more treacherous. Both ideologies reached the same totalitarian destination but communism began with nobler aims and therefore required more lies to sustain it. It became 鈥渁 form of Socialism that makes mental honesty impossible,鈥 and its literature 鈥渁 mechanism for explaining away mistakes.鈥 He”
― The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell鈥檚 1984
― The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell鈥檚 1984
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? 鈥 every, every minute?鈥 asks Emily in Thornton Wilder鈥檚 1938 play Our Town. The answer, of course, is no. How could we? It鈥檚 all we鈥檝e ever known. But contemplating the end can help.”
― Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
― Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
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