Die magischen Kalenderdaten 2018

2018 liefert uns einige bedeutsame Gedenkanlässe aufgrund der runden Zahl. Vielleicht bleibt einiges Bedenkenswert?

1618
Beginn des dreißigjährigen Krieges

1848
Revolutionsjahr in Europa und Amerika

1918
Ende des 1. Weltkriegs

1938
Anschluss Österreichs ans Deutsche Reich

1948
Gründung des Staates Israel - Nahostkonflikt

1968
Studentenrevolten, Niederschlagung des Prager Frühlings

Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War. The first edition was published in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952. The American edition had a preface written by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. [The German translation appeared only in 1964!]
A French translation made by Yvonne Davet – with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes – in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death.

The book was finally published in April 1938 but "made virtually no impact whatsoever and by the outbreak of war with Germany had sold only 900 copies." According to John Newsinger, "the Communist vendetta against the book" was maintained as recently as 1984, when Lawrence and Wishart published Inside the Myth, a collection of essays "bringing together a variety of standpoints hostile to Orwell in an obvious attempt to do as much damage to his reputation as possible."

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Addendum:
Revisiting George Orwell’s classic account of the Spanish Civil War, 75 years on.
by Mick Hume , SPIKED

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Censorship is censorship, whether from the right or the left. Or should we consider the crimes of the left, the communists, as less weighting, less important, less damaging? Obviously so - since so many still uphold Stalin, his terror, as legitimate measures against fascism.

With leftwingers like those one only can become desperate. Today it is no accident or coincidence that there are no journalists, writers or activists like George Orwell was. The scene is clear: here the good boys, the politically correct ones, there the bad boys, the enemies. The old manichaean view reigns for the comfort of the One Dimensional Man.

Fabio Doplichers 75. Geburtstag

Fabio Doplicher wurde 1938 geboren. Es gibt leider kaum biographische Angaben. Hier zwei kurze:

Dictionary of Literary Biography on Fabio Doplicher

Fabio Doplicher is one of the most versatile literary artists in Italy today. He writes poems, film scripts, plays, and criticism; he edits literary journals and organizes major cultural symposia. His reputation rests chiefly, however, on his poems, which have earned him high acclaim. In 1985, in presenting him the Premio Montale for La rappresentazione (The Performance, 1984), the poet Mario Luzi said (as reported in Avanti!, 12 July 1985):

La rappresentazione è un libro di ispirazione unitaria che supera la casualità di una "raccolta," e che è degno del premio per lo stile e per la particolare coloritura dell'immagine e della metafora, lo è altresì per il pensiero sotteso, l'ossatura filosofica e l'implicita indagine figurata sui valori e la crisi dei valori di questo particolare momento della nostra civiltà. Altrettanto rilevante è l'apertura teatrale e narrativa che offre insolite prospettive al linguaggio poetico e alle sue situazioni.

In AGNI online heißt es:

Fabio Doplicher  is an Italian poet, playwright, and critic. The recipient of the Premio Montale for his collection La Rappresentazione (The Performance, 1984), he is also one of the featured poets in the anthology New Italian Poets (Story Line Press, 1991). (updated 7/2010)

In der Wikipedia-Seite zum PREMIO MONTALE wird Doplicher nicht angeführt. Die offizielle Seite des PRIMO MONTALE ist leider weder aktuell noch erschöpfend.