Orwells Jahr – Ist die Zukunft von gestern die Gegenwart von heute?

Overview:

• Title: Orwells Jahr – Ist die Zukunft von gestern die Gegenwart von heute?
• Author: Dieter Hasselblatt
• Year: 1983
• ISBN-10: 3550077254
• Publisher: Ullstein
• Price: DM 24.00
• Pages: 279+[1]
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Non-fiction
• Title Reference: Wir kommen auf Sie zu, Mister Smith
• Notes:
  • First edition, apparent first printing.
  • "Printed in Germany 1983" stated on copyright page (p. [280]).
  • The essay (and the incorporated review) by Aldiss seems to be original to this anthology (no source stated).
  • There are also three essays that deal solely with the history of totalitarian systems, by Ota Filip ('Standfeste Genossen', pp. 164-170), Milovan Djilas ('Die Auflösung des Leninistischen Totalitarismus', pp. 188-201), and Richard Löwenthal ('Jenseits des Totalitarismus', pp. 204-269).
  • The essays by Howe, Kolakowski, Djilas and Löwenthal were taken from Irving Howes nonfiction 1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century.
  • The essays by Aldiss, Howe, Kolakowski and Djilas were translated by Sigrid Gent.
  • Contents on p. 7f.; short biographical notes on the authors are on pp. 272-279.
  • There are uncredited cartoons on pp. 31, 66, 77, 86, 120, 131, 142, 147, 159, 203 & 270.
  • "Schutzumschlag: Hansbernd Lindemann" stated on inside backcover.
  • Price from Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, not stated in or on book.