For a seminar in political theory we are asked to independently choose a novel on the reception, processing and cultural reconciliation of totalitarism in literature.
I’d prefer poststructuralist novels with unique approaches or plain weird structure, something that is not already overdone in analysis.
Which books come to your mind that fit the requirements, yet take on a different approach to the classic dystopian novels such as 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid’s, or Animal Farm?
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“We, the Living” by Ayn Rand
But if your prof is anti-Rand (which would be completely understandable as she was pretty horrible), I’d pick something else
Can you translate the requirements list out of Newspeak?
Europe Central by William T Vollman might be a bit long to read for a seminar
Maybe Eumeswil by Ernst Junger?
YA, but The Giver, Lowery is a good one.
You could argue Mistborn, Sanderson fits.
“Brave New World” is the book you’re looking for.
Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Telling, Ursula K LeGuin
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solshenitsyn
Farewell My Concubine, Lilian Lee
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Children of Men by P.D James
Oryx and Crake, the series by Margaret Atwood
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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