Orwell discute del concetto di “letteratura proletaria” in una trasmissione alla BBC nel 1940, insieme con Desmond Hawkins.
Archive Orwell
All of George Orwell's essays and books, selected and republished by Kritica, little by little, in Anna Martini's Italian translation.
In this 1946 article for Tribune, Orwell ironically explores the impossible job of the book reviewer in the post-war publishing world.
An essay by Orwell critiquing Gandhi, written in 1949, once again brings major contemporary issues to the fore.
In *Tribune*, on 14 December 1945, George Orwell published an article that would go on to…
Orwell reflects on post-war justice and sees collective blame as a moralistic loophole that paves the way for new crimes.
Orwell’s first book, *Down and Out in Paris and London*, is a personal account of life in the two cities during the 1930s.
In a literary reflection that ranges from Dickens to Swift, Huxley and Orwell, he examines the relationship between socialists and utopia and happiness.
In chapter 3 of “Animal Farm”, Orwell recounts the division of labour among the animals and the beginning of differentiation.
In 1944, in an article for Tribune, George Orwell used Ezra Pound as an example to reflect on the connection between work and artist.
Orwell analyses Koestler's work with a critical, unsparing eye, the latter's career being riddled with 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 numerous forms of it and its vices.
1945. In “Contemporary Jewish Record”, Orwell reflects, without moralising, on the persistence of antisemitism as a form of nationalism.
The *forma mentis* which underpins nationalism, writes George Orwell in 1945, is common to many more movements than usually believed.
Reviewing *Mein Kampf*, Orwell reflected on the hypocrisy of the élites who had welcomed it benevolently, and on the reasons for its appeal.
“The Road to Wigan Pier” is the book Orwell dedicates to the English proletariat. In this chapter, he recounts life in a coal mine.
In “The Future of a Ruined Germany” (April 1945) Orwell expresses his realist, rather than pacifist, stance on war.
In “Colonia, dal caos all’ordine” (1945), Orwell observes the situation in the aftermath of the American military government's establishment.