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The Cost of Living

door Arundhati Roy

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From the bestselling author of "The God of Small Things" comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government'sdisregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, "The God of Small Things," Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one family in India. Now she lavishes the same acrobatic language and fierce humanity on the future of her beloved country. In this spirited polemic, Roy dares to take on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that were supposed to haul this sprawling subcontinent into the modern age--but which instead have displaced untold millions--and the detonation of India's first nuclear bomb, with all its attendant Faustian bargains. Merging her inimitable voice with a great moral outrage and imaginative sweep, Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath. For those who have been mesmerized by her vision of India, here is a sketch, traced in fire, of its topsy-turvy society, where the lives of the many are sacrificed for the comforts of the few.… (meer)
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Su facebook ho aperto una pagina che ho chiamato "Vivere con i libri" (https://www.facebook.com/vivereconilibri). Nell’immagine del profilo di questa pagina ho inserito una mia fotografia in cui mi rappresento seduto in terra con la schiena appoggiata a un libro. L'autore è il premio nobel Ilya Prigogine ed il libro porta il titolo di "La fine delle certezze". Ho preso spunto da questo titolo per attribuire all'immagine il titolo: "La fine delle illusioni".

Nel suo libro Prigogine propone un futuro in cui il venir meno della scienza deterministica, incapace di sostenere oltre le proprie contraddizioni, apre nuove prospettive allo sviluppo della creatività. Ma tale consapevolezza, in un mondo ancora fortemente condizionato da un sapere e da un agire che a volte trovo ancora molto limitanti, si rivela un vero e proprio boomerang che moltiplica la sensazione di oppressione senza riuscire a fornire indicazioni su possibili vie d'uscita.

Mosso da queste riflessioni ho cercato libri che condividessero l’idea della fine delle illusioni e mi sono imbattuto in questo testo di Arundhati Roy. Si tratta di un testo minore e ormai piuttosto datato che nella versione originale porta il titolo “The cost of living”. Cosa abbia spinto l’editore a modificare in modo così vistoso il titolo non riesco a capirlo ma la scelta, a distanza di venti anni, si dimostra piuttosto interessante. Nel libro non mi sembra di riconoscere segni di illusione. L’autrice è talmente disgustata dalla politica indiana da nutrire solo la certezza di trovarsi di fronte a personaggi incapaci di portare reali vantaggi alla enorme massa di indiani poveri.

La ricerca comunque mi ha permesso di trovare The End of Illusions di Andreas Reckwitz, un interessante libro dove effettivamente si affronta la fine delle illusioni che si sono sviluppate dopo la caduta del muro di Berlino, la fine della fede nella possibilità di costruire un mondo più sano, giusto, pacifico.

Ne riparliamo nel libro di Reckwitz.

(La foto di copertina è di Steve McCurry.)
  claudio.marchisio | Jun 17, 2022 |
vivid, passionate, compelling, but ultimately redundant and indulgent ( )
  rinila | Feb 25, 2022 |
> Le Coût de la vie, de Arundhati ROY (traduit de l'anglais par Claude Demanuelli, Gallimard, collection • Arcades •, 164 p., 98 francs.)
Se reporter au compte rendu de Jean-Pierre NAUGRETTE
In: Revue des Deux Mondes, (Avril 2000), pp. 167-172… ; (en ligne),
URL : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j8GCekHSOU8BtkmIpJXEkN2yarvHYchX/view?usp=shari...
  Joop-le-philosophe | Oct 3, 2020 |
Loved this book. Really good writing and rings so close to home... ( )
  neringros | Apr 8, 2010 |
Roy, Arundhati. The Cost of Living. The Modern Library, New York, 1999. This book consists of two essays. The first, The Greater Common Good, is about big dam projects in India. This one I'm inteterested in the most; I take any charge that capitalism fails very seriously at this stage in my life. Ms. Roy makes some serious charges that the big dam projects in India have nothing to do with the Common Good and everything to do with greed. The dams, she charges, displace or kill millions. This I want to investigate. The second essay strikes me more as a rambling, but still thought-provoking, response to India's nuclear tests. It doesn't provoke me to follow up on anything, though, because I agree with her viewpoint. The nuclear tests were silly.
  BrianDewey | Jul 30, 2007 |
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From the bestselling author of "The God of Small Things" comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government'sdisregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, "The God of Small Things," Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one family in India. Now she lavishes the same acrobatic language and fierce humanity on the future of her beloved country. In this spirited polemic, Roy dares to take on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that were supposed to haul this sprawling subcontinent into the modern age--but which instead have displaced untold millions--and the detonation of India's first nuclear bomb, with all its attendant Faustian bargains. Merging her inimitable voice with a great moral outrage and imaginative sweep, Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath. For those who have been mesmerized by her vision of India, here is a sketch, traced in fire, of its topsy-turvy society, where the lives of the many are sacrificed for the comforts of the few.

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