 Hi everyone, welcome to my channel and welcome to a to a reading of the first comic book adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. This book is has been adapted and illustrated by Fido Nesti and I've heard his name before but I don't know his full biography but when I was setting up our space here this morning I flipped through and at the back of here there's a little biography of Fido and what we'll do we'll have a read through that and we're going to flip through this thing, read some of the fine print, read the description, just get a nice feel for this beautiful heart cover okay and then what we'll do we'll read the first few pages from the beginning at the beginning and then I'm going to go to chat because we are live streaming this on twitch, we'll go to chat on twitch and ask to see where people want to flip to there are 243 pages okay so after we read the first few pages we'll figure out where people want to flip to and we can have a read through it and this book I picked up a few months ago and it was it's brand new I haven't read it I flipped just to see what the art looked like and it looks beautiful and it came out in 2021 so it came out last year we're in 2020 right now right and I've been dying to read this and I knew I wanted to do a live stream of it so very happy to finally get a feel of how the story is being told here I'm glad you could make it for this reading so again George Orwell's 1984 the graphic novel adapted by adapted and illustrated by Fido Nesti let's read the description the back war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength a famous quote from George Orwell's 1984 this might have a hard time focusing there we go in 1984 London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania Oceania Oceania Oceania where big brother is always watching you and the thought police can practically read your mind Winston Smith Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions drawn into a forbidden love affair Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called brotherhood dedicated to the destruction of the party together with his beloved Julia he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be with gorgeous evocative art from Fido Nesti this graphic graphic adaptation of George Orwell's masterpiece provides a new perspective on the iconic story that is still so relevant today George Orwell was born in 1903 in Matihari Bengal India the son of a British colonial civil servant he was educated at Eaton and in 1922 joined the Indian Imperial police in Burma resigning in 1927 to become a writer from 1934 to 1949 he published many novels many novels memoirs essays and articles considered one of the most important one of the most important writers of the 20th century he is also the author of animal farm dawn and out in Paris and London and what is fascism he died in London in 1950 Fido Nesti was born in Sao Paulo in 1971 and has worked in illustration and comics for over 30 years his drawings can be seen in the Fola de Sao Paulo newspaper and in the New Yorker as well as in various books and on covers jacket illustration by Fido Nesti Houghton Meflin hard hard court hmhbbooks.com higher in Canada 22 US and higher in Canada because the exchange rate fluctuates so much right Houghton Meflin hard court publishing company I love books that have white pages at the beginning really camera's a hard time focusing on it of course 1984 Burge Orwell this is like crisp beautiful crisp hardcover book it's got any Winston right there right the graphic novel illustrated by Fido Nesti and 2021 Boston New York Houghton Meflin hard court we got the fine print here so let's take a look at the fine print I do like reading the fine print first US US edition 2021 copyright 2021 by the state of Sonia Bronel Orwell and Frederico Carvales Nesti so this is a collaboration so maybe it didn't come out in the copyright didn't didn't expire it's just a collaboration between the Orwell state and the Nesti state I guess 1994 copyright 1949 by hard court incorporated and renewed 1977 by Sonio Bronel Orwell all rights reserved for information about for information about permission to reproduce sections from this book or write to trade their trade dot that's gotta be a dot trade dot permission at hmhco.com or to permissions Houghton Meflin hard court hard court publishing company 3 Park Avenue 19th floor New York New York 10016 first published in brazil in 1984 in 2020 oh first published a published in brazil as 1984 in 2020 so i guess the first adaptation of this would have been in portuguese oh that's very cool first published in great britain by penguin classics as 1984 the graphic novel in 2021 so there's a british version of it as well hmhbooks.com library of congress catalog in publication data is available blah blah isbn 978-0-35-35992-0 printed in china 8cp what are those numbers 10987654321 that's just 10987654321 countdown funny funny and this is part one now there's a biography when i flip through this at the back they do have george orwell and fido nesti's biography here let's have a read through those and i'm not sure what this is oh this is the appendix very cool very cool we're not going to read through the appendix but check this out appendix the principles of new speak oh wow talk about relevant to the present new speak was the official language of oceania oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of uh inksock or english socialism in the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used new speak as his sole means of communication either in speech or writing very cool very cool that present we're sort of going through a version of this and again someone in the chat at the beginning of us starting you know the live stream mentioned that this is a book that must be read by all right as well as animal form of course let's read the biography of george orwell george orwell was born in 1903 in mutti harry bangal india the son of a british oh we we read these so this was the same thing that we read here but it doesn't have all of it it can't be 1934 so for novels animal form we're at the final no no there's some extra stuff here gang so we're gonna have to read this for sure we'll read this okay george orwell was born in 1903 in mutti harry bangal india the son of a british colonial civil servant he was educated at it and in 1922 joined the indian imperial police in berma resigning in 1927 to become a writer from 1933 to 1949 he published several novels and works of nonfiction the tremendous success of his fair fairy story animal farm 1945 was surpassed only with the publication in 1949 of his masterpiece 1984 orwell wrote the final pages of the novel in a remote house on the island of jura in the scottish uh hybrids where he worked feverishly feverishly in between periods in hospital due to pulmonary tuberculosis he died a few months after his publication in january 1950 i did not know that oh my god that's a pretty important so a little bit of chronological history there wow after his publication check this out fido nesti was born in san paulo in 1971 and has worked in illustration and comics for over 30 years his drawings can be seen in the folha the sapalo newspaper and in new york new yorker magazine as well as in various books and on covers he has previously illustrated a comic strip adaptation of the portuguese epic poem the luciades the luciades or luciades and quadrinos 2006 and a and a graphic novel a machina the goldberg 2012 1984 had a great impact on him when he first read it in the year 1984 while at school and he is still deeply impressed by the way the dystopian world created by orwell is becoming ever more real he lived in airstrip he lived in airstrip one for a year between 2000 and 2001 i'm not sure what airstrip one is so again let's have a read and this is part one i don't i read 1984 many many moons ago so i don't remember how it was broken up and i don't think i i looked on my bookshelves for a copy of it if i still had it it wasn't on my bookshelf so it might be in one of my boxes so i couldn't flip through 1984 to find out how 1984 the novel how orwell broke it up so i'm not sure if he broke it up into parts or not or maybe uh nesty fido nesty is deciding to break it up like this okay but part one and what we'll do we'll read the first few pages of this and try to end at a you know reasonable point and then we'll go to the chat on twitch and we'll ask people to what page they want us to flip to go read some more a couple more segments and you can tell this is a fairly large book okay it has 243 pages okay so we can read any of the pages between here and 243 nice joe mentions airstrip one is the name for britain in the novel very cool thank you for that joe so over here where we find out he lived in uh he's basically saying he lived in britain from 2000 to 2001 very cool very cool very cool very cool part one it was a bright cold day in april and the clocks were striking 13 winston smith his chin nuzzled into his into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind slipped quickly through the glass doors of victory mansions though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl a swirl dust from entering along with him with the poster big brother is watching you it was no use trying to lift trying to let trying to lift even at the best of times it was seldom working and at present the electric electric current was cut off during daylight hours it was part of the economy drive in preparation for heat week the flat was seven flights up winston who was 39 and had a voracious ulcer above his right ankle went slowly resting several times on the way inside the flat a voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the ninth three-year plan the production of big iron the instrument the telescreen it was called could be dimmed but there was no way of shutting it off any sound that winston made above the level of very low whisper would be picked up by it and so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded he could be seen as well as heard there was a court there was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment how often on what system the thought police plugged in or on any individual wire was guesswork it was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time you had to live did live from habit that became instinct in the assumption that every sound every sound you made was overheard and except in darkness every movement scrutinized winston kept his back turned to the telescreen it was safer this was a london chief city of the air of airship one itself the third most populous of the provinces of oceania oceania he tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether it had always been quite like this the first four pages gang instead of reading chronologically and continuing this reading let's flip through this and read some sections what page would you like to read anywhere from page we're on page 10 right now page 11 all the way to 243 we can flip flip back and forth as well if there's anything anybody wants to read because we're not going to read this whole block would be a nice project though look at this 34 let's go elder god page 34 how about we begin how about we read it from page 33 66 is next how about we begin reading it from page 33 or let's start reading from page 33 let's build into this because there's love to be had on this page as you can tell let's do 33 so we're picking up the story page 33 from the graphic novel let's see if we can get this thing focusing it was an old rabbit rabbit bitten pasture with a foot track wandering across and a molehill here and there in the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the bows of the elm tree were swaying very faintly in the breeze their leaves just stirring in dense masses like woman's hair somewhere near at hand though out of sight there was a clear slow moving stream where days where days were swimming in the pools under the willow trees the girl with dark hair was coming towards him across the field with what seemed the single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside with his grace and carelessness the gesture seemed to annihilate a whole culture a whole system of thought as though big brother and the party and the thought police could all be swept into nothingness by single splendid movement of the hour winston woke up with the word shakespeare on his lips that too was a gesture belonging to ancient time single splendid movement of the hour the telescreen was giving forth an ear splitting whistle which continued on the same tone for 30 seconds it was not 7 15 getting up time for office workers he was doubled up by violent coughing fit which nearly always attacked them soon after waking up 30 to 40 40 group take your places please third thirties to forties arms bending and stretching one two three four come on comrades put a bit of life into it winston was wearing on his face the look of grim enjoyment which was considered proper during the physical jerks he was struggling to think his way backwards into the dim period of his early childhood it was extraordinarily difficult when there were no external records that you could refer to even the outline of your own life lost this sharpness everything had been different then even the names of countries and the shapes on a map had been different airstrip one for instance had not been so called in those days it had been called england or britain though london though london he felt fairly certain had always been called london winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war but it was evident that there had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood because one of the one of his early memories was of of an air raid which appeared to take everyone by surprise perhaps it was a time when the atomic bomb had fallen on cold chester he did remember his father's hand clutching his own as they hurled down down down into some place deep in the earth round and round in spiral staircase finally they had emerged into a noisy crowded place which he had real realized to be to be a tube station we didn't ought to have have trusted them i said so ma didn't i we didn't ought to have trusted the buggers picketily but but which buggers they didn't ought to have trusted winston could not now remember oh that's him right there and his dad i guess keep on reading this this looks cool we'll read a couple more pages here since about that time war had been literally continuous but to trace out the history of the whole period to say who was fighting whom at an any given moment would have been utterly impossible since there was no written record at this moment for example in 1984 if it was 1984 oceania was a war was at war with eurasia and an alliance with east asia and no public or private utterance what was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines actually as winston winston well knew it was only four years since oceania oceania oceania had been at war with east asia and an alliance with eurasia but that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactory under control satisfactorily officially the change of partners had never happened the enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil and it followed that any past or future agreement with him wasn't possible if the party could trust its hand into the thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event it never happened that surely was more terrifying than mere torture and death if all accepted the lie it passed into history and became truth all that was needed was an endearing series of victories over your own memory who controls the past ran the party slogan controls the future who controls the present controls the past one of the most important quotes from george or was 1984 who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past stand easy the instructor yells from the television or telescreen winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air his mind slid away into the lambran lambran world of double think to know and not to know to be cautious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them to use logic against logic to repudiate morality while laying claim to it to believe that democracy was impossible and that the party was the guardian of democracy to forget whatever it was necessary to forget then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed and then promptly to forget it again and above all to apply the same process to the process itself that was the ultimate absurdity absurd up up utility caution consciously to induce unconsciousness and then once again to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed when to understand the world double think involved the use of double think send the pictures oh id oh id and now let's see which one of us can touch our toes she says he tried to remember in what year he had first heard mentioned of big brother he thought it must have been at some time in the 60s but it was impossible to be certain in the party histories of course big brother figured as the leader and guardian of the revolution since his very earliest days let's read the rest of this his exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the 40s and 30s when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London in great gleaming motorcars winston could not even remember at what date the party itself had come into existence he had not believed he did not believe he had ever heard the word in sock before 1960 but it was impossible that in its old speak form English socialism that is to say it had been current effect current earlier English socialism in sock everything melted into mist sometimes indeed you could put your finger on a finite lie it was not true for example as was claimed in the party history books that the party had invented airplanes winston remembered airplanes since his earliest childhood but you could prove nothing just once in his whole life he had held in his hands unmistakable document documentary proof or the of the falsification of a historical fact and on that occasion smith 6079 smith w that's winston smith the television is looking yelling at him yes you ben lower please you're not trying lower please winston with a violent lunge succeeded in touching his toes with knees bent for the first time in several years in the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices to the left a large one for newspapers that's perfect to the right of the uh speak right a small mnemonic tube for written messages that's that guy right and in the side wall with an easy reach of winston's arm a large oblong slid for the disposable of waste paper what does that say back numbers okay gang where should we go to next should we go to page 66 as someone requested let's go to 66 that was an important read oh there's a lady love here wait a second this is important should we leave read a little bit from here yes we must this is an important event in his life yes let's read before we get to 66 let's read page 53 okay let's read page 53 53 to 50 uh 55 i believe it was three years ago it was on a dark evening in a narrow side street near one of the big railway stations she was standing near a doorway in the wall under a street lamp that hardly gave any light it was really the faint the paint that appeared to me the whiteness of it like a mask and the bright red lips there was nobody else in the street and no telescreens she set two dollars i went with her through the doorway and across a backyard into a basement kitchen there was a bed against the wall white lettering on black paper there we go there was a there was a bed against the wall and a lamp on the table turned down very low for the moment it was too difficult to go on winston had an almost overwhelming temptation to shout a string of filthy words at the top of his voice or to bang his head against the wall his teeth were set on edge he could have like to spit simultaneously with the woman in the basement kitchen he thought of Catherine winston was married he had been married at any rate probably he still was married for so far as he knew his wife was not dead he seemed to breathe again the warm stuffy odor of the basement kitchen an odor compounded of compounded of bugs and dirty clothes and villainous cheap scent but nevertheless alluring because no woman of the party ever used scent only the pearls you sent that woman had been his first lapse in two years or their bouse it was forbidden of course but it was easy enough provided that you could avoid being caught in the act tactically the party was even inclined to encourage prostitution as an outlet for instincts such which could not be altogether suppressed mere debauchery did not matter very much so long as it was fortev and joyless the unforgivable crime was promiscuity between party members the aim was not merely to prevent men and women from forming royal loyalties which it might not be able to control its real undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act which should be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation like having an enema the only the only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the party it must be nine ten nearly eleven years since winston and his wife had parted they had only been together for about 15 months very early winston had decided she had not she had not a thought in her head that was not so slogan and there was no imbecility that she was not capable of swallowing if the party handed it out to her yet he could have endured living with her if it had not been for just one thing as soon as he touched her she seemed to win since stiffen to embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image she would lie there with with shut eyes and she had two names for it one was making a baby and the other was our duty to the party yes she had actually used that phrase but luckily no child appeared and in the end she agreed to give up trying and soon thereafter they parted she threw herself down on the bed and at once without any kind of preliminary in the most coarse horrible way you can imagine pulled up her skirt he saw himself standing there in the dim lamp light with the smell of bugs and cheap scent in his nostrils and in his heart a feeling of defeat and resentment which even at that moment was mixed up with the thought of katharine's katharine's white body frozen forever by the hypnotic power of the party why did it always have to be like this why could he not have have a woman of his own instead of these filthy scuffles and intervals of years but a real love affair but a real love affair was an almost unthinkable event the woman of the party were all alike chastity was as deeply ingrained in them as party loyalty i turned up the lamp when i saw her in the light after the darkness the feeble light of the paraffin lamp had seemed very bright for the first time he could see the woman properly he had taken a step towards her and then halted full of lust and terror the paint was plastered so thick on her face that it looked as though it might crack like a cardboard mask but the truly dreadful detail was that her mouth had fallen a little open revealing nothing except the cavernous blackness she had no teeth at all but i went ahead and did it just the same let's go to page 66 that's a good place to start page 66 gonna have a sip of tea if there is hope it lies in the pearls the words kept coming back to him he was somewhere in the vague brown brown colored slums to the north and east of what had once been st pancreas station in and out of the dark doorways and down narrow alleyways that branched off on either side people swarmed in astonishing numbers girls in full bloom with crud crudly lipstick mouths and youth who chased chase the girls and swollen waddling women who showed showed you what the girls could be like in 10 years time an old bent creatures shuffling along on split feet and rag barefooted children who played in the puddles the blue overalls of the party could not be common sight in a street like this the patrols might stop stop you if you happen to run into them may i see your papers comrade what are you doing here the cops ask what time did you what time did you leave work is this your usual way home constant questions papers please papers please papers please something that's relevant in our societies right now right not that there was any rule against walking home by an unusual route but it was enough to draw attention to you if the thought police heard about it suddenly the whole street was in commotion there were yells of warning from all sides people were shooting into the doorways like rabbits steamers look out governor bang overhead herd lay down quick steamers was a nickname which for some reason the proles proles apply to rocket bombs explosion and destruction nice splash page that's a pretty big bomb that went off finds a hand i'm just checking the chat it seems to be people having problems with the live stream twitch is out a lot of people getting buffering going on how's our timing we're an hour and a half in what do you guys think should we call the stream we got a really good feel of what this book is about they are coming for our stream too much truth in one place holy god says oh look at this splash page game wow look at this flash page let's flip through this a little bit war is peace freedom of slavery ignorance of strength what a splash page this is a great buy of a comic book of a graphic novel the stream is okay oh my god okay beautiful but let's do this let's flip through this and see if we find any uh just chat and chat is messed up okay a little more let's do should we just flip oh here's part two so all of that was part one all of that was part one right that's cool here's part two same type of beginning as part one take a look right here's part one here's part two same style of beginning let's read the first few pages of part two then yeah let's read the first few pages here stream is okay awesome Kiwi fella thank you so we're on page 84 of graphic at that graphic novel adaptation adaptation of George Wells 1984 by Fito Nesti let's take a look at this it was the middle of the morning and Winston had left his cubicle to go to the lavatory a salt solitary figure was coming towards him it was her he trips falls down ouch who is her this is someone he saw before that we missed a curious emotion stirred in Winston's heart in front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him really in front of him also was a human creature in pain and perhaps with a broken bone you're hurt Winston says or asks it's nothing my arm it'll be all right in a second she says you haven't broken anything Winston asks I only gave my wrist a bit of a bang thanks comrades she says whatever was written on the paper it must have some kind of political meaning so far as you could see there were two possibilities one much the more likely was that the girl was an agent of the thought police and what was written on the paper might be a threat a summons an order to commit suicide a trap of some description we missed something what's this what's this oh we jumped a little bit I forgot to read this we jumped over this oh you missed three panels you missed the whole story so over here Winston asked her you haven't broken anything and then the girl says I only gave my wrist a bit of a bang thanks comrades then we go to this panel they had been standing straight in front of a telescreen when the thing happened nevertheless it had been very difficult not to betray a momentary surprise for in the two or three seconds while he was helping her up the girl had slipped something into his hand it was a scrap of paper folded into a square whatever was written on the paper it must have some kind of political meaning so far as you could see there were two possibilities one much much the more likely was that the girl was an agent of the thought police and what was written on the paper might be a threat a summons an order to commit suicide a trap of some description another was that the message came from some kind of underground organization perhaps the brotherhood existed after all his heart bumped in his breast with frightening loudness and it was with difficulty that he kept his voice from trembling as he murmured his figures into the speak right eight minutes had gone by he drew the next batch of work towards him with the scrap of paper on top of it the scrap of paper says that's the note and he's sitting there at his cubicle that looks like the guy's image on the big brother I love you the note says for several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole when he did so although he knew very well the danger of showing too much interest he could not resist reading it again just to make sure that the words were really there for the rest of the morning it was very difficult to work what was even worse than having to focus his mind on a series of mingling jobs was the need to conceal his agitation from the telescreen he felt as though a fire were burning in his belly at night he wolfed another tasteless meal in the canteen and hurried off to the community center he took part in the solemn foolery of a discussion group played two games of table tennis swallowed several glasses of gin and sat for half an hour through a lecture entitled engsuck in relation to chess his soul his soul withered his soul read with boredom but at the sight of the words i love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him with the poster house how to get in touch with the girl and arrange a meeting finally he decided that the safest place was the canteen and a week later he got her at a table by herself they were not too near the telescreen and with a sufficient buzz of conversation to exchange a few words in a low murmur winston began speaking neither of them looked up what time do you leave work winston asked 18 30 she replies where can we meet he asks victory square near the monument she replies it's full of telescreens it doesn't matter if there's a crowd any signal winston asks no don't come up to me until you see me among a lot of people and don't look at me just keep somewhere near me she says what time 19 hours all right winston says this is an important event in his life let's read the next let's read the rest of this this looks cool winston was in the in victory square before the appointment time let's focus on winston there's victory square lots of people there we gathered from some show from some shouted remarks that a convoy of eurasian prisoners was passing can you get sunday afternoon off she asks yes winston replies didn't listen carefully go to paddington station with a sort of military precision that astonished him she outlined the route that he was to follow a half hour railway journey turned left outside the station two kilometers along the roads road a gate with the top bar missing a path across the field a grass grown lane a track between bushes a dead tree within with moss on it there's the prisoners but yelling at the prisoners as if they know as if it was uh it was as though she had a map inside her hand can you remember all that she asks yes she replies old hands then get away from me as quick as you can she says she need not have told him that but for the moment they could not extra extricate themselves from the crowd the trucks were still filing past the people still insatiably gaping foreigners whether from eurasia or from east asia were a kind of strange animal one never knew what became of them apart from the few who were hanging as war criminals the others simply vanished presumably into forced labor camps it occurred to him that he did not know what color the girl's eyes were to turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly with hands locked together invisible among the press of bodies they stared steadily in front of the riot police too and instead of the eyes of the girl the eyes of an aged prisoner gazed mournfully at him intense book okay and this is Winston making his way to the girl this is the encounter let's just flip through this because we're not going to have time to read all this embrace they touch they talk and they make wow wow oh beautiful panel look at this for splash page look at that beautiful beautiful we don't even have time to flip through this whole thing look at this there's a section there's just a lot of text here chapter three war and peace so chapter three seems to be just the text of George Orwell's 1984 nice nice oh wow great graphic novel great graphic novel fantastic fantastic wow wow wow part three very cool very cool is there a part four no oh wow look at the artwork and colors i'll have to read this game and i highly recommend just from what we've looked at what we read what a fantastic book fantastic book George Orwell's 1984 the graphic novel adapted and illustrated by Fido Neste published in 2021 first published in portuguese in brazil in 2020 i hope you like the reading i'm gonna go back to the chat on the live stream on twitch let me turn it on