1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[pynchonoid]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> _1984_ depicts a society which is modelled on
> Stalinism. It's not modelled
> on the post-war British society under the Labour
> government, 

Pynchon seems to express a different opinion in the
Foreward, pointing out how post-war British society
does provides the setting for the novel.

>the one
> thing we can probably all
> agree on is that it should continue to be read, and
> particularly as a
> prescribed text for high school and college kids.

I've heard that  Pynchon's Foreward is going to be
included in a new edition of the Signet mass-market
paperback edition; thus young readers will be exposed
to Pynchon, in the US at least. 

> Of
> course, this raises the
> frightening irony that the novel _1984_ has itself
> become something like
> those propaganda texts which help to sustain Big
> Brother's reign.

Propaganda in favor of what?



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