Nineteen Eighty-four is 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 . In 2005 , the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 .