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Il 15 aprile 2011 veniva ritrovato ucciso Vittorio Arrigoni. Lo ricordiamo con una lettera da “Caro Vik ti scrivo” di Anna Maria Selini.

Orwell’s first book, *Down and Out in Paris and London*, is a personal account of life in those two cities in the 1930s.

In Chapter 3 of *Animal Farm*, Orwell describes the division of labor among the animals and the beginning of the distinctions between them.

In 1944, in an article in *Tribune*, George Orwell uses Ezra Pound as an example to reflect on the connection between the work and the artist.

Almost all of Gaza’s book collection has been destroyed, but many people have gone to great lengths over the years to protect the books.

Orwell takes a critical and unsparing look at Koestler’s work, whose career was marked by significant contradictions.

“The point is that the relative freedom we enjoy depends on public opinion. The law does not guarantee protection.”

In this second part of *Notes on Nationalism*, Orwell reflects on how the British intelligentsia interprets its various forms and flaws.

1945. Per “Contemporary Jewish Record” Orwell riflette, senza moralismi, sulla persistenza dell’antisemitismo come forma di nazionalismo.

La forma mentis che sostiene il nazionalismo, scrive George Orwell nel 1945, è comune a molti più movimenti di quanto non si creda.