Winston begins with a small act of rebellion and is gradually swept further and further into events beyond his control. Does anything sound familiar? Citizens are constantly reminded that Big Brother is watching them. Everyone can be observed through the large TV screen in their home, and criticism of the government is harshly punished. His visual additions are subtle and imaginative, and he transfers much of the text in which Orwell describes the lies and manipulation used to suppress people.ġ984 picks up in a London still scarred by the ravages of war, and focuses on Winston Smith, a minor cog in the great government machine, employed to constantly revise documentation so it conforms to the officially approved version of history at any given time. Nesti faithfully transfers the power and emotional states, and he does far more than just retain the essence of a long novel, including the thought processes and the nuts and bolts of an oppressive system.

During Fido Nesti’s lifetime his country, and neighbouring ones, have been controlled by military dictatorships.ĭense and attentive, it’s difficult to imagine anyone capable of producing a better graphic novel adaptation of 1984. 1984 has become a byword, shorthand for intrusive state surveillance, intervention and control, and while there’s no shortage of people in the English speaking world willing to invoke it as precedence, also worth noting is that this adaptation is the work of a Brazilian creator. It’s now decades beyond the year allocated to George Orwell’s chilling prophecy of the future, but in case its relevance is considered in the past also, it’s worth bearing in mind that Orwell supposedly wanted to the title to be 1948, the intended year of publication.

1984 graphic novel