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As with all the other Nineteen Eighty-Four ministries, the Ministry of Peace is named the exact opposite of what it does, since the Ministry of Peace is in charge of maintaining a state of war. The psychological plot is more interesting and is the core of an excellent novel, but the two plots just don’t quite pull together into a coherent whole.
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The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene - Pan Macmillan
It enforces loyalty to Big Brother through fear, buttressed through a massive apparatus of security and repression, as well as systematic brainwashing.
The Ministry of Fear is a third-person narrative largely focused through Rowe’s consciousness but often offering a more articulate and general commentary than he would himself be likely to provide, at least in his current psychological condition. Unclipped dustjacket is sunned to top edge and spine, with light creasing to top edge and a single corner, with some soiling internally - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Like Johns, I am one of the little men, not interested in ideologies, tied to a flat Cambridgeshire landscape, a chalk quarry, a line of willows across the featureless fields, a market town--his thoughts scrabbled at the curtain--where he used to dance at the Saturday hops. As Arthur Rowe, its pursued and pursuing protagonist, moves across London from north to south and east to west, the novel evokes a ravaged city that comes across as a potent, painful material actuality but also as a phantasmagoria: a place where the predictable and the improbable, waking consciousness and dream, the real and the surreal mix and merge; at one point Rowe feels 'directed, controlled, moulded, by some agency with a surrealist imagination'. The least familiar name today is Garland’s Hotel, in Suffolk Street SW1, which was popular with MPs, clergymen and novelists; Anthony Trollope, Henry James and D.
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