Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is one of the greatest dystopias in the history of world literature. It was she who inspired Anthony Burgess to create the bright, polemical and bold book “1985”. In its first - journalistic - part, Burgess analyzes Orwell's novel, resorting, for greater completeness and versatility of the analysis, to a variety of literary techniques - from “imaginary interview” to caustic parody. In the second part, written in 1978, the writer offers his own vision of the near future. He describes a state where firefighters go on strike while the city is engulfed in flames, where street gangs speak perfect Latin but rob and kill innocents, where people become hostage to technology, turning their lives into torture...