They have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. He is best known for the dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, published in 1949, and the satirical novella “Animal Farm” that came out in 1945. Orwell’s work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism.

A short introduction, based on material supplied by Orwell, preceded the translated abridgements. The article was abridged in the translated versions by omitting details of particular relevance to British readers. The essay was soon translated into French and Dutch, Italian and Finnish, in which the word nationalism was represented by chauvinism. Orwell shows his concern for the social state of Europe and the rest of the world because of the increasing influence of nationalistic sentiment in a large number of countries. Orwell discusses nationalism and argues that it causes people to disregard commonsense and to become more ignorant towards facts. “Notes on Nationalism” is an essay completed in May 1945 by Orwell and published in the first issue of the British magazine Polemic in October 1945. Shahre Honar is the publisher of the Persian translation, which carries a preface by Ramin Nasehi, a Germany-based Iranian sociologist. TEHRAN – English author and journalist George Orwell’s “Notes on Nationalism” has recently been published in Persian.Įbrahim Mahjubi has rendered the book into Persian from a German translation published in January 2020.

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