The Designs Of William Morris

What is the condition of Society under which we live? Is it satisfactory, is it quite as we should all like it to be? Does it quite please you who are listening to me, so that there is nothing you want to alter in it?
If that is the case, then none of my hearers are poor, and none have any fear of becoming poor; I am speaking to a crowd of rich men who are quite sure that they will always be rich. Well I see that is not quite the case; some of us are poor, some of us are afraid of becoming poor; some of us have to do very unpleasant work; all of us have to work more than we like; and we know of people who are worse off in all these matters than we are: So we do want to alter things if we could: we are not quite contented: if we say we are, we are not speaking truly but say so because we don't `want to argue, or because we want to get something out of rich people whose interest it is that we should be contented.
Well I should wonder if we were contented; for when we look at the present state of Society we find that the majority of people have every reason to wish to be better off than they are, that in point of fact they are living in misery. Let us look at the various conditions of life and see what portion of the whole people has good reason to be pleased with their share of the wealth, ease, good living, in a word, the happiness of this most highly civilized country...

Misery and the Way Out

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William Morris - Papiers cadeau d'artistes (10 feuilles)

Questo romanzo, per stessa ammissione di J. R. R. Tolkien, è stato fonte di ispirazione per la stesura de Il Signore degli Anelli. William Morris, uno dei più influenti intellettuali dell'Ottocento Inglese, rivisita la lotta tra Goti e Romani mescolando realtà storica ed elementi fantastici tipici del romanzo islandese medievale. Thiodolf, condottiero barbaro della casata dei Wolfings, si oppone in uno scontro epico ai Romani che minacciano la sua gente. Le vicende narrate servono all'autore come spunto di riflessione sulle tematiche politiche utopistiche a lui tanto care. L'opera è finalmente presentata al pubblico italiano in un'accattivante traduzione che riecheggia lo stile del racconto orale, accompagnata da evocative illustrazioni.

The House of the Wolfings

I wish to say a few plain words on the subject of art; and since I address myself chiefly to those who are called the working-classes, I know well that the plainer those words are the better, since now for many years, for centuries, the working-classes have scarcely been partakers in art of any kind, and the phraseology of men learned in the fine arts will be strange to you. For centuries this slavery has been added to the rest of the oppression under which you lie, that you have been forbidden to have any share in the intelligent production of beautiful things.

Indeed, I think it will be news to many of you who toil to live that you may live to toil, that there either is or has been or can be any connexion between Art and the People. It may seem to you, I can well imagine, that art is concerned only in making luxurious toys for rich and idle persons, and that all the working-classes have to do with it, is that some of them can earn their poor wages by working at it as machines work, without knowing or caring what they are doing; while now and then on holidays those of them that chance to think of it and who live in London may stray into the National Gallery or the British Museum, and see the carefully hoarded works of past ages, and get from them such good as men can get who look on a book in an antiquated dialect of their language without an interpreter between them and the past.

Art and the People - Protest against Capitalist Brutality

Rodolphe, le plus jeune fils du roi des Haults-Prés, s’enfuit de la maison paternelle pour partir en quête d’aventures et connaître la vie d’un chevalier errant. Chemin faisant, il apprend l’existence d’une source magique à l’eau miraculeuse et se met en devoir de la découvrir. Son épopée le mènera par-delà les citadelles des hommes, les forêts enchantées et les landes arides. Le jeune aventurier y rencontrera un grand nombre de figures extravagantes qui bouleverseront sa vision du monde, du Bien et du Mal, et de lui-même : de fiers bergers-guerriers défiant l’ordre établi, des brigands justiciers plus joyeux que des ménestrels, un mystérieux chevalier noir, un moine lubrique tout droit sorti des Contes de Canterbury, et une sorcière insoumise à la loi des hommes dont il tombera éperdument amoureux.Grand roman d’aventures, ce texte est l’acte de naissance de la fantasy, croisement du roman d’aventures à la Walter Scott et du conte. Comme chez Swift, Voltaire ou Cyrano de Bergerac, l’aventure et le merveilleux deviennent dans ce roman les outils pour placer dans l’esprit de ses lecteurs les ferments d’une révolte nécessaire, éprise de liberté, d’égalité et de fraternité.

La Source au bout du monde

L'âge de l'ersatz

C'est en 1884, soit six ans avant la parution de son célèbre Nouvelles de nulle part, que le socialiste révolutionnaire et architecte-décorateur, William Morris, prononce cette conférence. Voici comment nous vivons et voilà comment nous pourrions vivre, écrit Morris, qui appelle à un sursaut collectif pour substituer la " coopération " à " l'état de guerre perpétuelle " inhérent au capitalisme, introduire la nature et l'art dans " ces conglomérats énormes, impossibles à gérer, qu'on appelle des villes ", et refuser, au nom de la joie et de la dignité, la fatalité des " existences mécaniques ". Si le mot décroissance fait aujourd'hui polémique, ce texte révèle que l'idée, elle, ne date pas d'hier.

Comment nous pourrions vivre

What is the condition of Society under which we live? Is it satisfactory, is it quite as we should all like it to be? Does it quite please you who are listening to me, so that there is nothing you want to alter in it?

If that is the case, then none of my hearers are poor, and none have any fear of becoming poor; I am speaking to a crowd of rich men who are quite sure that they will always be rich. Well I see that is not quite the case; some of us are poor, some of us are afraid of becoming poor; some of us have to do very unpleasant work; all of us have to work more than we like; and we know of people who are worse off in all these matters than we are: So we do want to alter things if we could: we are not quite contented: if we say we are, we are not speaking truly but say so because we don't 'want to argue, or because we want to get something out of rich people whose interest it is that we should be contented.

Well I should wonder if we were contented; for when we look at the present state of Society we find that the majority of people have every reason to wish to be better off than they are, that in point of fact they are living in misery. Let us look at the various conditions of life and see what portion of the whole people has good reason to be pleased with their share of the wealth, ease, good living, in a word, the happiness of this most highly civilized country.

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