May 27, 2015

Privacy, Security, and Literature

Daniel Solove (George Washington University Law School) is compiling a list of privacy and security related novels. His first five selections?

Franz Kafka, The Trial (published in 1925 in German, first English translation published in 1937).

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984) (published 1949).

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932).

Herman Melville, Billy Budd (first published 1924, but written in 1888-1891, and left unfinished at Melville's death).

Heinrich Böll, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (published in 1974, first English translation 1974).

Professor Solove invites you to email suggestions to him or to post them in the comments section.

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