FIAMME DAL PASSATO

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  • FIAMME DAL PASSATO by Paolo Mieli

If we were to lay out a map of today's world on a large table, we would be forced to indicate two large crisis areas very close to us: one would cover the (already dismembered) territory of Ukraine, victim of Russian aggression in February 2022; the other would coincide with the Gaza Strip, the object of Israeli retaliation after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. To signal these terrible conflicts we would instinctively use a very clear and self-explanatory symbol, a blazing flame. It is from a passage, an apparently simple association that Paolo Mieli begins in this new, compelling volume: the fires that are undermining the stability of the West were in many cases triggered by sparks that smoulder under the ashes of the last century. And so, retracing key and exemplary events of the three disastrous dictatorships of the twentieth century, the Nazi, the Fascist, the Communist, Mieli intervenes with precision in the contemporary historical debate, framing under the lens of the great narrator the matrices (the embers, to remain in the semantics of fire) from which today's violent distortions originated. A complete review that from the Berlin of the 1940s, that of Hitler and Goebbels, arrives at the Italy of D'Annunzio and Mussolini; that ranges from Soviet tanks to Budapest to the illusions of Mao. At the beginning and end of the book, two long essays dedicated to Kiev and Gaza, to the ongoing wars, to the most violent fires that the new millennium has known (56 active conflicts, in 2024). A "live" historical approach that forces us to confront the risks we run, with the solutions that, if identified, seem impossible, with frustrated and disappointed hopes for peace.

FIAMME DAL PASSATO
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If we were to lay out a map of today's world on a large table, we would be forced to indicate two large crisis areas very close to us: one would cover the (already dismembered) territory of Ukraine, victim of Russian aggression in February 2022; the other would coincide with the Gaza Strip, the object of Israeli retaliation after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. To signal these terrible conflicts we would instinctively use a very clear and self-explanatory symbol, a blazing flame. It is from a passage, an apparently simple association that Paolo Mieli begins in this new, compelling volume: the fires that are undermining the stability of the West were in many cases triggered by sparks that smoulder under the ashes of the last century. And so, retracing key and exemplary events of the three disastrous dictatorships of the twentieth century, the Nazi, the Fascist, the Communist, Mieli intervenes with precision in the contemporary historical debate, framing under the lens of the great narrator the matrices (the embers, to remain in the semantics of fire) from which today's violent distortions originated. A complete review that from the Berlin of the 1940s, that of Hitler and Goebbels, arrives at the Italy of D'Annunzio and Mussolini; that ranges from Soviet tanks to Budapest to the illusions of Mao. At the beginning and end of the book, two long essays dedicated to Kiev and Gaza, to the ongoing wars, to the most violent fires that the new millennium has known (56 active conflicts, in 2024). A "live" historical approach that forces us to confront the risks we run, with the solutions that, if identified, seem impossible, with frustrated and disappointed hopes for peace.

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If we were to lay out a map of today's world on a large table, we would be forced to indicate two large crisis areas very close to us: one would cover the (already dismembered) territory of Ukraine, victim of Russian aggression in February 2022; the other would coincide with the Gaza Strip, the object of Israeli retaliation after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. To signal these terrible conflicts we would instinctively use a very clear and self-explanatory symbol, a blazing flame. It is from a passage, an apparently simple association that Paolo Mieli begins in this new, compelling volume: the fires that are undermining the stability of the West were in many cases triggered by sparks that smoulder under the ashes of the last century. And so, retracing key and exemplary events of the three disastrous dictatorships of the twentieth century, the Nazi, the Fascist, the Communist, Mieli intervenes with precision in the contemporary historical debate, framing under the lens of the great narrator the matrices (the embers, to remain in the semantics of fire) from which today's violent distortions originated. A complete review that from the Berlin of the 1940s, that of Hitler and Goebbels, arrives at the Italy of D'Annunzio and Mussolini; that ranges from Soviet tanks to Budapest to the illusions of Mao. At the beginning and end of the book, two long essays dedicated to Kiev and Gaza, to the ongoing wars, to the most violent fires that the new millennium has known (56 active conflicts, in 2024). A "live" historical approach that forces us to confront the risks we run, with the solutions that, if identified, seem impossible, with frustrated and disappointed hopes for peace.

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9788817186681
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September 3, 2024
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