About the book: 2020 / “I won’t say that the novel is more relevant than ever, but, damn it, it’s much more more relevant than we might want.” Dorian Lynskey, journalist, writer From this book you will learn how George Orwell’s most famous and in many ways prophetic novel “1984” was created. The author carefully analyzes not only the history of the birth of this iconic dystopia, telling us about Orwell himself, his life and the context of the time when the novel was written. But it also explains what happened after the book was published, how attitudes towards it changed and how it eventually took an important place in popular culture. Lynskey discusses how it turned out that the numbers 1984 are familiar and subconsciously understandable even to those who have not read this work. Orwell's story has been and continues to be addressed to this day. His books sell in huge numbers all over the world. Orwell invented and gave life to the phrases “Big Brother” and “Cold War”, without which we can no longer imagine the 20th century. And yet “1984” is not a book about despair, but a book about hope that all the nightmares described in it will never come true. The author of this exciting literary story, Dorian Lynskey, is a British journalist and writer, a regular columnist for The Guardian.