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Giuliana Sgrena The front Iraq. Diary of a permanent war THERE IS a manner to judge it "quality" of a book that offers some keys to interpret, to so little distance of time, the events that tells. The quality is that of the duration. In this case is had the luck of to be able measure it with sufficient precision. Gone out before some few day moments important of the iraqui recentissima story , this "Diary of a permanent war" has not of it nevertheless resented. For two reasons, above all. The before it is that Giuliana Sgrena is granted, in the initial part of the book, the flavor of the impressionism. Perhaps the subjective one is the sole shot to tell not the war of the plastics and of the long fields on the hardened motions of columns, but the impact of the war on the lives of men and women. The point of fall of a bomb from 500 kilograms, the tears of the director of the museum of Baghdad just devastated in the days of the chaos, the nurses arms that protect the hospitals from the thiefs are instantaneous of chronicle. However they tell the Story with more precision of any press conference pentagonale or television vesposo discussion. The daily course of the story and the cleanliness of the writing create a plan-clear sequence, essential, dry. Rich of humanity, that it shine through in the modesty with that sent off it of the obvious one it draws near to individual a lot of dramas, known for name. To page 71, the step changes. The look climbs on the dolly and the field is stretched. They enter in game the pressures and the international interest, the oil, the complex composition of the iraqui society, with religious his facetings, ethnic, tribal, of type. The analysis after it "chronicle" is not alone journalistic matter of order. It is the choice of an angolazione. Giuliana Sgrena is at its comfort also in the spacious scenery and or rather, neighbor gives back it more, human and, to the same time, more wretched. At least for certain figures, protagonists downgraded, just, to appear: Ahmed Chalabi, the bancarottiere on that the united States had aimed to drive the new one Iraq americanizzato; Paul Bremer, the proconsole to the head of the Coalition provisional authority; Moqtada to the Sadr, Saddam Hussein, Alì to the Sistani, the large ayatollah of Najaf. Even George W. Bush, apparent first actor of the drama, is banished on the background. The key that Giuliana chooses is that of the forces and of the deep motions of the iraqui society. That they reflect on the politics, but they surpass it and, in some cases, they remove them sense. Better, they show its shortsightedness, thick opportunistica. So the journey in the complexity of the world sciita, to which a lot of pages, or the delicate game between the ethnicities are dedicated and the religions that superimpose and interweave, when do not fight themselves, make come in mind, for contrast, the comments cut with the hatchet of the propaganda from the governments that participate in the occupation.


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