![]() ![]() Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.” But she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. As Orwell puts it in Nineteen Eighty-Four, “in some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda … She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was to avoid bursting out laughing. Publisher Granta said that Julia understands the world of Oceania “far better than Winston and is essentially happy with her life”. Of course, if you felt foolish calling someone ‘Comrade’, far better not to speak to them at all.” “Comrade Smith was his right name, though ‘Comrade’ never suited him somehow. He was the one Syme called ‘Old Misery’,” writes Newman. “It was the man from Records who began it, him all unknowing in his prim, grim way, his above-it-all oldthink way. In Julia by Sandra Newman, the incidents of Nineteen Eighty-Four are seen through the woman’s eyes. ![]() Julia by Sandra Newman Photograph: Granta ![]()
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