Nineteen-Eighty Four is the Nineteen-Eighty Four of our time.
It's visionary. For example, even in this sense: we are just entering the age when you not only watch screens, but they watch you.
It's visionary. For example, even in this sense: we are just entering the age when you not only watch screens, but they watch you.
As to whether the political novel is dead, it is always kicking about in science fiction, where fashions have their own undercurrents that are much less subject to the whims of what can be regarded as literature. Science fiction, probably to its benefit, being rarely regarded as literature in the first place.