ANTINOMIES OF NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.

The article presents information on the antinomies of the book "Nineteen Eighty-Four." On the one hand, there is the loose-jointed, empiricist, Wellsian naturalism. This is the aspect of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" that deals in great particularity of detail with objects and relations of the "real" world and that recalls the author of "A Clergyman's Daughter" and the early work generally. On the other hand, there is the totally controlled, programmatic, Swiftian satire, where complete coherence is achieved through an intricate and thoroughly fantastic two-dimensionality. It is the dialectic of genres that determines the book's overall quality. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" partakes of both the empiricist solidity of "A Clergyman's Daughter" and the total coherence and significance of "Animal Farm" by a constant and, as it were, illicit traffic between naturalism and satire.