Una ricostruzione attenta scritta a ridosso del caso Moro, con uno Sciascia impegnato a leggere fra le pieghe del linguaggio (le lettere di Moro, i comunicati dei brigatisti) e molto critico nei confronti dello Stato. Un tassello importante dell'opera di Sciascia. ( )

En marzo de 1978, las Brigadas Rojas secuestraron al político democristiano Aldo Moro y, en mayo de ese mismo año, lo asesinaron, algo que conmocionó a toda Italia. Leonardo Sciascia, por entonces diputado del Partido Radical, participó en la comisión parlamentaria que investigó los hechos y, en agosto de 1978, escribió El caso Moro. A partir de las cartas escritas por Moro desde su cautiverio, Scascia lo interpreta con rigor y perspicacia y reconstruye una trama de pensamientos y hechos que es, hasta el momento, lo que mejor permite comprender ese terrible episodio de la historia italiana.

Quelle : Hein, Peter : Stadtguerilla und bewaffneter Kampf : Bibliographie. - Kapitel VII. Bewaffneter Kampf in Europa Seite 45

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I do declare, noting that Cesare Battisti has been captured and will be brought to what the Italians loosely term 'justice' after 37 years evading it, that it must be fitting to read this book now.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-14/cesare-battisti-arrested-in-bolivia-after...

The affair in question was the kidnapping of Moro in 1978. The Red Brigade tried him, in their own fashion, and sentenced him to death. Although they then offered a trade, thirteen of theirs in exchange, the ruling Christian Democrats refused. Actually, even the Pope refused. It must have been truly shocking for Moro to realise that his colleagues and friends, not to mention the head of the Church, had no intention of trying to save him.

And it shocked Sciascia: hence the book. In main part it looks at the letters Moro sent to his family, his colleagues, the Press and the Pope during the two months he was kept alive. And it examines them in a literary way, searching for clues in a way perhaps only Sciascia could. He brings in Borges, Cervantes, and Pirandello amongst others. He believed that Moro must have hidden hints as to his whereabouts in these letters. He talks of the incompetence of the police and the unChristian-like behaviour of the ruling party.

He talks of the indirect way Moro had of talking and how this played out. And I couldn't help wondering if Sciascia was himself writing like Moro in this regard. I knew nothing of the story other than what I read in these pages. But it felt obvious to me from the start that the whoever was running the Christian Democrats was probably quite happy with how things were going. Not to mention it explained the way in which the police set about the task of finding him - or as seems actually to have been the case, set about the task of looking like they were trying to find him.

At one point in the letters he sent, Moro asks if his betrayal is actually something decided by the Americans. Since then, it transpires that yes, this is the case.

rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2019/01/25/the-moro-affair-by-leonar... ( )