1984: The Graphic Novel

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The story is the same as the original book and adapted very faithfully, which I appreciate. 1984 is set in a dystopian society that reflects the direction that the Soviet Union was heading in the late 1940s in what is known as "Oceania." Stalin's Soviet Union is applied to the United Kingdom, as the world has become tyrannical and overseen by a figure known as Big Brother, meant to reflect Stalin himself. The central character is Winston Smith, who works for the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, which is Newspeak is known as "Minitrue." In this society, the authorities control everything and everyone is expected to do as their told. If they are obedient, it is going to be a lovely society and a great state of mind from their perspective, but we all know that this is a dystopian society that no one in their right mind wants to live. This is a society where wars are declared and are revered and hanging traitors is viewed as an event as prominent as The Super Bowl or The World Cup. George Orwell made this a terrible world for a reason! In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called the Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

In a world where emotions are limited, discouraged, and even eliminated, the note changes everything for Winston, and ultimately leads him down a wonderful, but ultimately dark and devastating path... Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed - no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull." Where individualism is dead, there’s no intellectualism, no invention or creativity, therefore by eliminating the main elements of humanism, it will also extinguish with nothing left but shadows of animals pretending to be else wise. One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. Por una parte, que el protagonista Winston en una sociedad distópica ha jincao más que yo en una sociedad pandémica.The thing is that this graphic version provides an almost complete text of the original book (not simplifying or shortening it much, so the reading is really long and serious, as it is basically the same Orwell’s text), plus it dispels this dullness and “anchors” us to the story with eye-catching artistic techniques. Therefore, it represents the full story of “1984” only in a somewhat more entertaining and easily-digestible form.

Tocaba volver a leerla, pero en otro formato y en una nueva edición, con dibujos del artista autodidacta Fido Nesti.

Fido Nesti has faithfully adapted the oppressive, hopeless feeling which was generated by the Book. The visuals are simple, but hauntingly beautiful, possessing a rustic, psychedelic quality, and giving you the ever pervading feeling of the walls closing in on you. But then you read to the end and think, well a sequel would certainly ruin everything, wouldn't it? Seems like Orwell himself was frightened by the ending his novel had, worrying for posterity and warning them to not pass by easily. Eastasia: Smaller than the other two, comprised of China and the countries to the south of it, the Japanese islands, and a large but fluctuating portion of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet.