Nineteen Eighty-Four is historical fiction.
Nineteen Eighty-Four . The protagonist of the novel , Winston Smith , is a member of the Outer Party , who works for the Ministry of Truth ( or Minitrue in Newspeak ) , which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism . As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction , Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content , plot and style .