1984 (picture book)

"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength"
Anti-Utopian Classic Literature Masterpiece × Winner of French International Comics Awards

★ George. Celebrating Orwell's 120th Birthday! Adaptation of dystopian classic literature. Full-color hardcover graphic novel!
★ Won the 2022 "Prix BD Fnac France Inter" (Prix BD Fnac France Inter)!

★ "1984", one of the top 100 English novels of the 20th century──50 million copies sold worldwide, translated into more than 62 languages!
★ George Orwell's painstaking work, and "Us" and "Brave New World" are listed as the top three dystopian novels!
★ Must-read list for British and American students! A tribute to Haruki Murakami's "1Q84" & Margaret . Atwood's favorite!

"If you don't fight totalitarianism, it will be invincible." --George Orwell

▍Whoever controls the past controls the future──Freedom is the right to say "two plus two equals four".

In 1984, everyone in Oceania lived under the watchful eye of Big Brother,
The ubiquitous telescreen and the thought police control people's words and deeds, and they will be "disappeared" if they are not careful.

The main character, Winston, is in the totalitarian Oceania, working for the party government to falsify history and fabricate news.
However, as a member who had glimpsed the truth and was responsible for rewriting history, he began to doubt the status quo──

Years of wars that have led to the decline of people's livelihood, sinful sex and love, the public enemy Goldstein who inspires hatred, words that should not exist, colleagues who have never existed, and "big brothers" who have never seen themselves... Which ones are true? Which ones were fabricated by the party government?

He began to write in his diary in a blind spot out of reach of the telescreen, and the idea of ​​rebellion grew in him. After starting a secret love affair with a female colleague who also has free will, he began to plan a rebellious action. The two threw themselves into the rebel organization without hesitation, but stepped into the trap carefully arranged by the party...

▍ "Big Brother is watching you" is a fable or a prophecy? The most frightening work of totalitarian allegory!

British writer George. Orwell's dystopian classic "1984" was regarded as an excellent masterpiece as soon as it was published. Since its publication in 1949, it has continued to be popular all over the world. Surveillance, history falsification, and totalitarian states such as "Big Brother is watching you," "Thought Crime," "Doublethink," and "Newspeak."

With a grim and sharp style of painting, the author of this book perfectly reproduces the high tension and chilling atmosphere of the original work, and leads readers to directly see the process of protagonist Winston's ideological awakening, pursuit of the truth, rebellion and post-imprisonment re-education. Good thinking raises doubts and demonstrates the value and significance of personal thinking and freedom.