![]() ![]() If you were to ask me now though, with the events of Brexit and of the ascendancy of President Trump events both arguably made possible because of nationalist impetus, the messages of Orwell’s work are as pertinent now as they were then. ![]() In the context of immediate post-war Europe, Orwell’s essay was essential reading when it was first published in 1945 but it ultimately flew under the radar. ![]() As you just read, Notes on Nationalism was written in the waning shadow of the Second World War and as such Orwell uses the case studies of Nazism and Communist Stalinism as examples of how nationalism inevitably leads to conflict between groups of people and even leads to rampant ignorance fragmenting any threads of unity within nations. Orwell is largely known for his other works such as Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four but Notes on Nationalism is often overlooked, perhaps due to it being an essay rather than a novel and subsequently being harder to find since one won’t find it in the classics section of a book store. Notes on Nationalism was an essay published by the famed British novelist, critic and activist George Orwell in the fall of 1945. ![]()
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