1984

From every major intersection, the face with the black mustache stared at you. BIG BROTHER IS LOOKING AT YOU, the legend repeated, while the gaze of the black eyes penetrated Winston’s eyes… In the distance, a helicopter glided between the roofs, hovered for a moment, like a bluebottle, then left like an arrow, in a curved flight. It was a patrol that came to poke their noses into people’s windows. But the patrols didn’t matter. All that mattered was the Thought Police.”

Christian Gonon interprets with virtuosity one of George Orwell’s greatest texts: with him, we enter the totalitarian world of Big Brother, on the border between science fiction and reality.