1984 Foreword

[Terrance]

> >
> > > The dollar the currency in _1984_
> >
> >       "The splitting up of the world into three great superstates
> >     was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the
> >     middle of the twentieth century. With the absorption of Europe
> >     by Russia and of the British Empire by the United States, two
> >     of the three existing powers were already effectively in
> >     being." (Part 2 Ch. 9, from Goldstein's book)
> >
> > It seems banal to mention it but this is *the* Cold War novel. Prescient,
> > too, in many respects.


Even if  the Cold War begins at the Yalta conference (1945) it seems to
me that _1984_ can't possibly be *the* cold war novel. I think Orwell
wrote about "the dollar-gap." And I mention this because I think it's
important to insist that the "narrative" of Orwell is at least as
important, if not more so, that the  "narrative" of contemporary readers
who apply hindsight and call it prescience.