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"It (the novel) has been described as a 'satire', as a dystopia, science fiction, a thought experiment, a techno-historical fantasy, and a political treatise. It has elements of all of these genres, but what it most often resembles is, quite simply, a Gothic novel. (...) Nineteen Eighty-Four is not just a Gothic novel, but also the most important and influential example of what has been called 'paranoid Gothic'."