The book 1985 is the third and last dystopia in oeuvre of Anthony Burgess. It can be considered unique since it contains a string non-fictional texts reflecting on Orwell’s classic as well related philosophical, political, social, theological issues, followed by dystopian novella entitled “1985.” essay argues that book, but especially essays, read Burgess’s “cacotopian ars poetica,” or h...

The EU Copernicus project Multext-East has created a multi-lingual corpus of text and speech data, covering the six languages of the project: Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Slovene. In addition, wordform lexicons for each of the languages were developed. The corpus includes a parallel component consisting of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with versions in all six languages...

Creativity often arises from a process of appropriation, in which something is wrenched from its normative context of use and given new meaning in a new setting. In this vein, Marcel Duchamp popularized the notion of an artistic ready-made when his Fountain – a signed urinal – was presented with some controversy at a Dada exhibition in 1917. We normally think of readymades as physical objects w...

Orwell felt that socialism (and anarchism) meant an identity of belonging based on equality. It touched him deeply, and the memory remained with rest his life.