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Book review: Julia is a more human retelling of Orwell’s masterpiece
In this feminist reimagining of Nineteen Eighty-Four, women are fleshed out from the mere symbols Orwell created
What timing it is: just as ITV is rolling out its reboot of the George Orwell-inspired Big Brother, and shortly after the publication of Emily Wilson’s The Iliad, the first translation of the Homeric poem undertaken by a woman, comes a feminist retelling of Orwell’s most culturally influential novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
For those who haven’t read this masterpiece since the halcyon days before mass surveillance was normalised, Julia was the object of Winston Smith’s affections. ...
