Is Dave Eggers’ ‘The Circle’ our Generation’s ‘1984’?

Dave Eggers takes on the dystopian world of Facebook and Google in his new novel The Circle. Stefan Beck on whether we should dare to 'Like' it.

Published Oct. 2 2013 5:45AM EDT

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In 1945, Jorge Luis Borges published a short story about Google. The narrator of “The Aleph” is a writer, also called Borges, who each year visits the family of a dead woman with whom he’d been in love.

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Is Dave Eggers’ ‘The Circle’ our Generation’s ‘1984’?

Dave Eggers takes on the dystopian world of Facebook and Google in his new novel The Circle. Stefan Beck on whether we should dare to 'Like' it.

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