Benoit J. Suykerbuyk (ed.) - Essays from Oceania and Eurasia: George Orwell and 1984 : Papers Presented at the Orwell Conference, University of Antwerp, 11-13 November, 1983. Antwerpen: Universitaire Instellingen Antwerpen, Exa, Progressef, 1984. A5 paperback, 182 pp.
These are overall rare proceedings from a 1983 conference on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four containing an unpublished lecture by Anthony Burgess on utopia and science-fiction.
A good copy of a hard-to-find book on Orwell's dystopian classic. a number of pages in the front and the back of the book were almost invisibly pasted back in with adhesive tape.
Content:
- Clem Neutjens, Introduction
- Anthony Burgess, Utopia and Science-Fiction
- Karel Rimanque, Forms of State in Science-Fiction
- Karel Hellemans, Always the Eyes Watching You
- Lyman Tower Sargent, Social Control in Contemporary Dystopia:
- Theo D'haen, Language and Power in Orwell and Burgess
- Johan Thielemans, Anthony Burgess
- Jonah Raskin, The Trouble with Orwell
- Bernard Crick, Nineteen Eighty-Four and 1984: Satire or Prophecy
- Frank Winter: Was Orwell a Secret Optimist? The Narrative Function of the 'Appendix' to Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Luk De Vos, News-peak: He hated B.B.
- Paul Chilton, Orwell's Conception of Language
- Raimond Borgmeier, Nature in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Armelle Gauffenic, 1984: from Fiction to Reality
- Tony van Loon, Public Recording and Secrecy in 1984
- Leonard M. Henny, Orwell's Prophecies
- John W. Forje, 1984: an African Perspective. Harnessing Technology and Political Power to Genuine Human Ends
- Alexander Zinoviev, Nineteen Eighty-Four and 1984
- Jean Chesneaux, Our 1984: the Planet-Wide Model of Compulsory Modernity: from INGSOC to FLAMOD
- Karel Boullart, Metaphor, Discursiveness and Death, or 'Big Brother, the Eternal Drudge'
This collection of essays has its origin in a conference on George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four organized at the University of Antwerp from November 11-13 1983. Anthony Burgess was the Guest of Honor.