British newspaper The Guardian has an essay up by American novelist Thomas Pynchon about George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Pynchon notes the many correspondences between the world Orwell portrays and the information-driven, hyper-nationalistic times we live in, but suggests the ending of the novel is not quite as bleak as many make it out to be. According to Pynchon, the novel's coda, a faux critical essay called "The Principles of Newspeak", suggests that the regime has ended and language is no longer inverted by the powers that be.
Oh, its good to know Pynchon is still around. The last paper I wrote as an English major was about the appropriation of detective fiction in Pynchon's The of Lot 49 and City of Glass by Paul Auster. I'm planning to spend my summer reading fiction, and it seems that Nineteen Eighty-Four would be a great place to start.
Good link. I love the way Pynchon writes. Glad to see he's still at it.
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