Brian May 1948 : A Critical & Creative Prequel to Orwell's 1984 Hardcover Book Brian May Multicolor

Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media.He continues to attract a large readership. This book is about Orwell’s post-war cultural moment c. 1948. Taking his Diaries of the time as inspiration, together with his famous final novel, 1984 (published 1949), and treating them as contiguous texts, Brian May considers the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's message and asks what Orwell would have written next. But 1948 is more than a work of literary criticism: rather, it balances critical discussion with creative intervention, being one-half literary-critical commentary, and one-half fictional departure - a novella titled “From the Archives of Oceania,” which quotes, parodies and pastiches Orwell's Diaries, offering a possible prequel.Together these elements offer a resource for the reader to interrogate anew such difficult issues as Orwell's sexism and anti-Sem