
Into the Memory Hole
Despatches from the "world of lies"
James P. Bruce(Author)
Lulu.com (Publisher)
Published on 25. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-4477-3048-4 (ISBN)
Description
In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', George Orwell's prophetic novel about a future "world of lies", the author wrote about a device called the Memory Hole. It is used to alter any record, like a press report or a photograph, that no longer fits with the ever-changing policies of the Big Brother regime.
Now imagine an historian trying to retrieve even a few of those records before they are doctored or destroyed. Would it be possible to reverse what Orwell described as a "process of continuous alteration" of the past?
'Into the Memory Hole' is much more than a nostalgia trip. It is an attempt to re-evaluate our assumptions about human history, to rediscover the shocking truth about our own "world of lies".
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4477-3048-4 (9781447730484)
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Person
James P. Bruce is the author of 'Faithful Servant: A memoir of Brian Cleeve' and 'Ireland's Hope: The "peculiar theories" of James Fintan Lalor'. More information about the author can be found at https://jpbruce.ie.