| January 3, 1985. The announcement comes over the tele-screen: Big Brother is dead. His empire, Oceania, has beendefeated in a disastrous air battle and is no more. Only twogreat powers remain: Eurasia and Eastasia. Behind the scenesBig Sister (Big Brother s widow) struggles with the ThoughtPolice and the army for power, while elsewhere the winds ofreform sweep through the remnants of Oceania. Everywhere, under the bitingly humorous hand of Gy6rgyDalos, George Orwell s chilling world of 1984 seems to be experi-encing a thaw, as Orwell s tortured lovers Smith and Julia,O Brien the Thought Policeman, Ampleforth the hack poet,and Syme the cynical philologist come alive again. However,when the thaw becomes a revolution as the proles get involved,the now-friendly neighboring empire Eurasia steps in to ~restoreorded If this scenario reminds you of anything, that s no surprise.Gyorgy Dalos is a child of post-Stalinist Hungary, and no onecould have been better placed to write such an incredibly in-genious successor to Orwelrs prophetic novel of the cold war,a hilarious international roman E clef f~ for today s world. Gy6rgy Dalos, born in Hungary in 1943, studied at MoscowUniversity from 1962 to 1967. He was put on trial in his owncountry in 1968 for "Maoist" activity, expelled from theHungarian Communist Party, dismissed from work, and putunder police surveillance. He makes his living as a translator andalso has published a collection of his poems. Just as Orwell s orig-inal 1984 could not be published in Hungary, so this book couldnot. It has come out, however, in German, French, and EngEsheditions. |
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