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| Author(s): |
Matheus Cardoso da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2010-10-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Sara Albieri;
Maria Elisa Burgos Pereira da Silva Cevasco;
Daniel Aarão Reis Filho
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| Advisor: | Sara Albieri |
| Abstract | |
This work proposes a study of George Orwell\'s critical to the process of handling the memory in the societies of interwar Europe. Will be taken as reference to understand this criticism, his nonfictional writing, between the years 1937 and 1949, a period that spans his reflections on the Spanish Civil War (1936-9) and the publication of his latest work in life, 1984 (1949). Undeniably the critical profusion of the totalitarianism of Orwell\'s work, especially in his fictional writings of the late 1940s - the Animal Farm and 1984. However, it was exactly in his non-fiction, implied here, which is built around the framework reflective of the criticism of suppression of individual liberties in the European societies of the 1930s and 1940s, especially through the process of handling the memory. The criticism of Orwell does not only authoritarian governments in Europe of 7 that period - or their versions in totalitarian States of Nazism and Stalinism - but ultimately reach the English society of the 1940s. What Orwell will highlight, especially in its journalistic criticism, is a process of manipulation of information broadcast by the English press, be it institutional, through government agencies such as the Ministry of Information, either in the suppression of information in journals of influence or communist control (in the sense not to disclose positions contrary to the determinations of Cominterm), pointing to the construction of a official, authorized version, first on the Spanish Civil War, and later on various events related to World War Two and the war propaganda. (AU) | |