Publisher Granta said that Julia understands the world of Oceania “far better than Winston and is essentially happy with her life”.
“She has known no other world and, until she meets Winston, never imagined one. She’s opportunistic, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. She’s an ideal citizen of Oceania,” said Granta.
So, in other words, "Sure, you may think 1984 is a dystopian nightmare, but look at this woman here, she's perfectly content to just be a cog in the machine and do what she's told. Be like her!"
This is fucking hysterical to me because that Literally happened in 2020. Burning stores looting shops and gang beating people who just wanted peace was "breaking the rules", and it was collaboration with the regime to be the ideal citizen.
Its flaunting just how fucked shit has been and will be. Laws are for peons.
I can't find it now but there's a quote from Stalin or Lenin how "we seek nothing less than the complete elimination of law, its replacement being the will of the people".
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.
In Julia by Sandra Newman, the incidents of Nineteen Eighty-Four are seen through the woman’s eyes.
Orwell’s estate said it had been “looking for some time” for an author to tell the story of Smith’s lover, and that Newman, who has previously been longlisted for the Women’s prize and shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, “proved to be the perfect fit”. Julia will be published after Granta releases Newman’s new novel The Men – in which every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world – next June.
So, in other words, "Sure, you may think 1984 is a dystopian nightmare, but look at this woman here, she's perfectly content to just be a cog in the machine and do what she's told. Be like her!"
lolwut
This is fucking hysterical to me because that Literally happened in 2020. Burning stores looting shops and gang beating people who just wanted peace was "breaking the rules", and it was collaboration with the regime to be the ideal citizen.
Its flaunting just how fucked shit has been and will be. Laws are for peons.
I can't find it now but there's a quote from Stalin or Lenin how "we seek nothing less than the complete elimination of law, its replacement being the will of the people".
(Unless the will of the people is to live and work with people who are of similar creed)
Wouldn't that be Parsons? Smith's neighbor who was glad his kid denounced him for (presumably) saying negative things about the party in his sleep.
In other words "True 1984 has never been tried!"
They're just trying to make this line disappear.
The truth hurts.
Total lack of self awareness. What could be more Orwellian than rewriting history.
Lesbian.
Ehh, the writer's last book had all men dying off.
I hope she is a BIPOC fae sexual
LITERALLY PROVING THE POINT BEHIND IT
Title credit.
More from the Guardian article:
Another male genocide fantasy piece.
And another blatant ripoff. This was already done in a graphic novel series called Y: The Last Man.
Does this Newman character have any original ideas, or is she being fêted for only riding coat-tails?
Sandra (((Newman)))
My god son you're retarded
...how Orwellian