‘Notes On Nationalism’ is a little ensemble of three of his piercing and probing essays in which he dissected his favorite subjects and conundrums: patriotism versus jingoistic nationalism, political fads and the prevalence of prejudice as a part of the national attitude to war and even the sporting spirit of the 1940s. Even the smallest of his pieces, like ones on both insular and eclectic subjects like English cooking and even Mahatma Gandhi, are full of such discerning detail and insight that you cannot help but find them wise. The themes and ideas that feel somewhat ambiguous and hazy in his fiction are fleshed out brilliantly in his writings on themes both major and minor. More than his novels, it is in George Orwell’s lucid and far-from-didactic essays on an incredible range of topics of English concern that we find his real strength as one of the foremost chroniclers of the 20th Century. Like so much of Orwell’s oeuvre, this collection of essays written in 1945 is still urgently relevant today. Reading this book was another confirmation on how much I always mesmerized by his insightful writing that resonates this era as well. But I just realized I have never written single book review on his works.
George Orwell is one of that kind of authors for me because he has such a shrewd insight and his writing successfully conveys it. As a reader, you will usually have at least one author whom you absolutely love his/her writing so you just try to read all of his/her works.
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