The artist thinks the same could be said of “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” “War is presented as peace. Enemies are invented for us. We’re invited to think that black is white, and white is black.

This is the book, and you’re going to read it,” Shrigley quipped in an interview. The artist first read “Nineteen Eighty-Four” when he was an art student in the 1980s.

For instance, maybe most importantly, Pynchon's essay uses "Nineteen Eighty- Four's" almost always skipped Appendix, "The Principles of Newspeak," to reverse-engineer a crack of daylight into ...

“Nineteen Eighty-Four” has been adapted as feature films in 1956, directed by Michael Anderson and in 1984 by Michael Radford, which features Richard Burton’s last performance.

The future has already arrived. In this sense Nineteen Eighty-Four feels shockingly modern, the ultimate slacker’s novel. No wonder it was best filmed as Brazil rather than in a faithful adaptation.

“Nineteen Eighty-Four” has been adapted as feature films in 1956, directed by Michael Anderson and in 1984 by Michael Radford, which features Richard Burton’s last performance.