I agree with Henry on the interest of themes reports of libraries / reading war / war. The first
something every so often said and done (always too little.) Have existed and still exist in the wall movements against the war librarians, in the U.S., Italy, Spain. On
site of the library of Cologno you can always download the "glorious" bookmark that we prepared at the time of the outbreak of war in Iraq.
So many complaints have been raised on the destruction of Iraqi libraries (after the Yugoslav) and now the spotlight has turned on those Lebanese. A beautiful story that deals with the literary theme is that of Italo Calvino , "A general in the library." O to Galeano "The function of the player" in the "Book of hugs." But the theme
read / war is far more complex and rarely investigated thoroughly . Why
its faces are many and in some (apparent) conflict between them. On the one hand is the "absolute pacifism" of reading (the war is the negation of all that reading makes us appreciate: dialogue, friendship, beauty, etc.)..
There are wars that are against books and other in the name of a book, but all are against reading. You can not read (free) or under the bombs on a cot, if you "read" a person (or someone) you can not kill her. But then
There are those investigations reading in Sarajevo, for example, during the war: a "boom" of the reading due to the fact that people were in shelters immobilized, could not get out, did not work the current, non c ' was the tv ... and light was the only thing to do to stay alive.
In Italy however, the Yugoslav war has reduced drastically the sales of books. Of course, the stubborn resistance of readers under the rubble only confirms the otherness between reading and war, but at the same time shows a paradoxical reading of revenge (however short-term, and that is at odds with the inability to stop reading barbarism).
Or there are those photo of Che Guevara that reads almost anywhere, and the chronicles of his comrades describe him as he was carrying a backpack on the shoulders of the books apparently sacrificing other goods no longer needed. The guerrillas and reading: this is also a good story, and very contradictory.
says Franz Kafka: "The wars are made for lack of imagination."
Luca F.
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