"The Pity of War" e l'immaginario della guerra nel Welfare degli anni '50

This essay retraces the ways the 'pity of war' originally conveyed and popularized in the war poetry of WW1 has later metamorphed into a symptom of ineradicable violence. George Orwell's catastrophic novel "1984", a lugubrious proleptic vision of the post-war Welfare is addressed as a pivotal text in this respect. In Orwell the war pity is shown to reverse into everyday violence, a violence which is forshadowed as contiguous to the Welfare project. The essay shows how Orwell's radical views come to bear upon the ensuing British literature and culture