The Moro Affair

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Italy
ISBN : UVA:X004624531

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The Moro Affair by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

On March 16, 1978 Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on March 18 they said he would be tried in a 'people's court of justice'. Seven weeks later Moro's body was discovered in the boot of a Renault parked in the crowded centre of Rome. In The Moro Affair, Leonardo Sciascia - a master of detective fiction - untangles the real-life events of these crucial weeks and provides a unique insight into the dangerous world of Italian politics in the 1970s.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Carcanet Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015010416942

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The Moro Affair ; And, the Mystery of Majorana by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

Author : Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986-11-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226869849

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The Moro Morality Play by Robin Wagner-Pacifici Pdf

On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed—the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder—constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social "texts" that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these "texts" calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy.

Author : Richard Drake
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0674014812

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The Aldo Moro Murder Case by Richard Drake Pdf

Aldo Moro's kidnapping and violent death in 1978 had much the same effect in Italy as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy had in the U.S., with both cases giving rise to endless conspiracy theories. Drake provides a detailed portrait of the tragedy and its aftermath as complex symbols of a turbulent age in Italian history.

Author : Marco Baliani
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781611474633

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Body of State by Marco Baliani Pdf

Body of State offers a critical perspective on the Moro Affair and on Marco Baliani's work. With contributions from scholars, theater practitioners, teachers, and students, it constitutes a unique resource for disciplines that train on the intersection of art and politics. The relevance of the topic raise the interest of the audience as well.

Author : Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986-11-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226869849

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The Moro Morality Play by Robin Wagner-Pacifici Pdf

On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed—the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder—constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social "texts" that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these "texts" calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590170628

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Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. And yet how committed are the cynical, fashionable, comfortable revolutionaries to revolution—or anything? Who is doing what to whom? Equal Danger is set in an imaginary country, one that seems all too real. It is the most extreme—and gripping—depiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : Suspense fiction, Italian
ISBN : 1847089267

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Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

The four novellas in this text show illusions being lost and ideas betrayed amid war and revolution. Each one has its own historical moment: the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Spanish Civil War, the death of Stalin and the revolution of 1848.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783780228

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The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

Here are some of Sciascia's greatest stories - brief and haunting, the realist tradition at its best. In one tale a couple of men talk, cynically yet earnestly, about the etymology of the word 'mafia' - who they are, and why their interest is so piqued by the word, becomes apparent with frightening clarity. In another story a group of peasants are taken on board ship and promised that they will be put ashore illegally at Trenton, New Jersey; after a long time at sea, their landfall is far from what they expected. And Mussolini himself takes an interest in the case of Aleister Crowley, whose presence in Sicily has become an embarrassment.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032812185

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Open Doors and Three Novellas by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

“A miniature masterpiece [by] one of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century European literature.”—The New York Times Book Review From one of modern Italy’s greatest writers come four flawless novellas that combine history and fiction while mapping the treacherous relations between individuals and the state. Whether set amid the paranoia of the fascist past or the criminal and political labyrinths of present-day Italy, the novellas in Open Doors are thrillers of Kafkaesque moral gravity, beautifully written and relentlessly engrossing. “During the last quarter century, Sciascia has made of his curious Sicilian experience a literature that is not quite like anything else ever done by a European.”—Gore Vidal “Sciascia has claimed a niche in the critical pantheon comparable to [that of] Pirandello and Borges.”—Washington Post Book World “Combining fiction, historical meditation, philosophy and intellectual detective work . . . these novels [are] a poignant gleam of the elusive gold standard in literature.”—Newsday “Our century’s most brilliant writer-detective.”—Village Voice

Author : Fabrizio Cilento
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319926810

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An Investigative Cinema by Fabrizio Cilento Pdf

This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies. These documentary-like films refrain from a simplistic reconstruction of historical events and are mainly concerned with what does not immediately appear on the surface of events. Consequently, they raise questions about the nature of the “truth” promoted by institutions, newspapers, and media reports. By highlighting unanswered questions, they leave us with a lack of clarity, and the questioning of documentation becomes the actual narrative. Investigative cinema is examined in relation to the historical conjunctures of the “economic miracle” in Italy, the simultaneous decolonization and reordering of culture in France, the waves of globalization and neoliberalism in post-dictatorial Latin America, and the post-Watergate, post-9/11 climate in US society. Investigative cinema is exemplified by the films Salvatore Giuliano, The Battle of Algiers, The Parallax View, Gomorrah, Zero Dark Thirty, and Citizenfour.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780940322523

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To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno the pharmacist done? Nothing that he can think of. The next day he and his hunting companion are both dead.The police investigation is inconclusive. However, a modest high school teacher with a literary bent has noticed a clue that, he believes, will allow him to trace the killer. Patiently, methodically, he begins to untangle a web of erotic intrigue and political calculation. But the results of his amateur sleuthing are unexpected—and tragic. To Each His Own is one of the masterworks of the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia—a gripping and unconventional detective story that is also an anatomy of a society founded on secrets, lies, collusion, and violence.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006035229

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Sicily as Metaphor by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

Sicily as Metaphor, an intellectual autobiography and companion piece to Sciascia's imaginative writings, resulted from the conversations he had toward the end of the 1970s with the French journalist Marcelle Padovani, correspondent for Le Nouvel Observateur in Italy and author of a history of the Italian Communist Party.

Author : Leonardo Sciascia
Publisher : Sellerio Editore Palermo
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038742032

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L'affaire Moro by Leonardo Sciascia Pdf

Author : Ruth Glynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351551533

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Remembering Aldo Moro by Ruth Glynn Pdf

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy's experience of political violence in the period known as the 'years of lead' (1969-c.1983). This uniquely interdisciplinary volume explores the evolving legacy of Moro's death in the Italian cultural imaginary, from the late 1970s to the present. Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to bear, interventions by experts in the fields of political science, social anthropology, philosophy, and cultural critique elicit new understandings of the events of 1978 and explain their significance and relevance to present-day Italian culture and society.