> The estate of George Orwell has approved a feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which reimagines the story from the perspective of Winston Smith’s lover Julia.
I do not expect "Julia" to be an exceptional book, but, for me, it seems a good excuse to revisit Nineteen Eighty-Four from a different perspective.
What is there to revisit? The character of Julia is fully explored in 1984. What else is there to say? She just accepts the world as it is and plays by the rules when she has to, to do what she wants when she can.
The irony of "redoing" 1984 is just too much for me to take this project seriously.
It feels like the point is well and truly missed when it's framed like this. It's not about "him" or "her", it's about "human." If you start leveraging types of humans as the focus of the story, you've literally lost the plot.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 19.2 ms ] threadI do not expect "Julia" to be an exceptional book, but, for me, it seems a good excuse to revisit Nineteen Eighty-Four from a different perspective.
The irony of "redoing" 1984 is just too much for me to take this project seriously.
Let's see if she can avoid the modern feminist tropes:
- Mary Sue protagonist
- author self-insert power fantasy
- lesbian sex
- black/trans/female people good, white men evil
or (which is to be expected) if the villains will now become thinly-veiled MAGA stand-ins.
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