20th Century Dystopia Literature 1940 – 1950
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Dystopian Literature 20th Century – 1940 -1950 this is the era was the previously established parents of Dystopian world’s like WE and Brave New World are beginning to be understood. The world is in the midst of the fight of its life the Second Great War WW2, and the recovery afterwards along with the rapid growth of technology and the dropping of the atom bomb. For dystopian writers, the possibility of total annihilation of the human species is a real possibility. Also, they have seen the growth of competing ideologies on Communism vs Capitalism vs Nazism. The 1940’s certainly themselves would make some of the earlier Dystopian Novels read like bedtime stories, also this era gives brith to Orwell, a leading figure in Dystopian Genre.
Book Title: Darkness at Noon
Author: Arthur Koestler
Published: 1940
Publisher: Macmillan
Language: English
Pages: 254
Good reads rating: 4.03 /5
About: Darkness at Noon has written in German while Koestler was living in Paris. Its title might be a citation from Victor Hugo, in his book Napoleon le Petit: which, thus, is an inference to the unnatural murkiness that happened at early afternoon in the narrative of Christ’s torturous killing.
Book Title: If This Goes On
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Published: 1940
Publisher: Astounding Science-Fiction
Language: English
Pages: 396
Good reads rating: 3.92/5
About: The novella indicates what may befall Christianity in the United States given mass interchanges, connected brain research, and insane people. The story is set in a future religious American culture, administered by the most recent in a progression of fundamentalist Christian “Prophets”.
Book Title: Kallocain
Author: Karin Boye
Published: 1940
Publisher: Bonniers
Language: Swedish
Pages: 220
Good reads rating: 3.80 /5
About: A major theme of this book is including the thought of the self in an extremist express, the significance of life, and the intensity of adoration. It has the impact that any individual who takes it will uncover anything, even things of which they were not deliberately mindful.
Book Title: The Moon Is Down
Author: John Steinbeck
Published: 1942
Publisher: Viking Press
Language: English
Pages: 188
Good reads rating: 3.89/5
About: An American writer writes The Moon Is Down novel. Colonel Lanser, a veteran of numerous wars, attempts to work under a cloak of politeness and law, however in his heart, he realizes that “there are no quiet individuals” among those whose opportunity has been removed by power. They understand the vanity of the war and that “the flies have vanquished the flypaper.
Book Title: Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Published: 17 august 1945
Publisher: Signet Classics
Language: English
Pages: 112
Good reads rating: 3.92/5
About: The Soviet Union, he accepted, had turned into a merciless tyranny, based upon a religion of character, and authorized by a rule of dread. At the point when Old Major dies, two youthful pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, expect order and stage a revolt, driving Mr. Jones off the homestead and renaming the property “Creature Farm”.
Book Title: That Hideous Strength
Author: C. S. Lewis
Published: 1945
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Language: English
Pages: 384
Good reads rating: 3.88/5
About: This book shows the religious sci-fi Space Trilogy. The colleagues of Bracton are discussing the clearance of a segment of school land to the National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.), whose staff as of now incorporates some school personnel. Simultaneously, Jane gathers the mental fortitude to visit Miss Ironwood at St. Anne’s.
Book Title: Bend Sinister
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Published: 1947
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Language: English
Pages: 208
Good reads rating: 3.82/5
About: The story starts with the hero, Adam Krug, who had recently lost his significant other to an ineffective medical procedure. The leader of the college and his partners immediately approaches him to sign and convey a discourse to the pioneer of the new government, yet he can’t.
Book Title: Ape and Essence
Author: Aldous Huxley
Published: August 1948
Publisher: Harper & Brothers (US)Chatto & Windus (UK)
Language: English
Pages: 152
Good reads rating: 3.77/5
About: The book employs dreamlike symbolism, delineating people as primates who, in general, will unavoidably execute themselves. The two warring sides each have an Einstein on a rope, which they power to press the catch, discharging billows of infection-causing gases toward one another.
Book Title: The World of Null-A
Author: A. E. van Vogt
Published: 1948
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Pages: 246
Good reads rating: 3.74/5
About: This epic is sci-fi. In any case, he finds that his recollections are false. A man living in an obvious ideal world where those with unrivaled understanding and mental control rule the remainder of humankind needs to be tried by the monster Machine that decides such prevalence.
Book Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: George Orwell
Published: June 8, 1949; 70 years ago
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Language: English
Pages: 328
Good reads rating: 4.17/5
About: Nineteen Eighty-Four is an exemplary scholarly novel in the class of political fiction and tragic sci-fi. Winston Smith is an individual from the white-collar class Outer Party. He works at the Ministry of Truth, where he reworks verifiable records to fit in with the state’s regularly changing form of history.
Book Title: Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen
Author: Karin Boye
Published: 1948
Publisher: (United States) Collins (UK)
Language: English
Pages: 144
Good reads rating: 3.11/5
About: The book was met with overwhelmingly poor gathering and was viewed as a disappointment, even though it is truly essential as the principal novel about the atomic war to be distributed in the United States. They quickly rise during the Battle of Britain; however, the experience causes them to choose that humankind would demolish themselves without their mediation.
Book Title: Peace in Our Time
Author: Noël Coward
Published: 1948
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc
Language: English
Pages: 221
Good reads rating: 3.10/5
About: It centers on a little gathering of Londoners in a bar near Sloane Square. Despite the fact that fiction, the work takes direct motivation from the genuine sufferings of French residents during the German control of France, which Coward had pursued intently.
Book Title: Heliopolis
Author: Ernst Jünger
Published: 1949
Publisher: Heliopolis Verlag
Language: German
Pages: 389
Good reads rating: 4.11/5
About: Heliopolis is a tragic novel distributed in 1949. Officer Lucius de Geer has a place with the staff of the Proconsul, yet he stands increasingly more detached from these internal battles. The epic happens later on at once not given. Heliopolis has portrayed as a city in the Mediterranean.
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- 1990 -2000 Dystopian Literature 20th Century
- 2000 – 2010 Dystopia Literature 21st Century
- 2010 -2020 Dystopian Literature 21st Century
