La Grande Guerra. Storie e parole di giustizia

Attraverso la coltre oscura, tragica e irredimibile della guerra riesce talora a filtrare qualche bagliore di verit\ue0 e dignit\ue0, di \u2018tregue pensose\u2019: atti di riconoscimento del \u2018volto dell\u2019altro\u2019, azioni giuste, oltre la semplice obbedienza all\u2019ordine ricevuto. \uc8 la narrazione letteraria che sa disvelare, nelle \u2018tempeste d\u2019acciaio\u2019 del conflitto di massa e della carneficina industrializzata, non meno che nelle vite di ogni giorno, quanto vi \ue8 di \u2018spiritualmente tipico\u2019: la \u2018dimensione spettrale\u2019, come avrebbe detto lo scrittore Robert Musil, in cui si invera l\u2019\u2018umano\u2019. Si pu\uf2 forse pensare che questa magia di disvelamento, che si rinnova ogni volta nelle grandi narrazioni, non sia destinata a illuminare \u2013 ieri, oggi e sempre \u2013 chi, per professione o per semplice appartenenza al genere umano, voglia debba confrontarsi con la \u2018domanda di giustizia\u2019? E che ad addensare ancor pi\uf9 questa domanda, guidandola verso risposte possibili, non sia proprio lo sguardo di una letteratura che abbia saputo penetrare nell\u2019estremo scempio della guerra, di una guerra che \ue8 stata detta Grande? La Grande Guerra. Storie e parole di giustizia \ue8 ricerca dolente e partecipe di \u2018parole giuste\u2019, ispirate dalle storie di chi o su chi ha attraversato gli abissi di un conflitto mai veramente finito, perch\ue9 coagulo e anticipazione di molti degli orrori dei nostri recenti passati e di un presente che ancora non riesce a liberarsi dallo spettro di Polemos. .Through the obscure, tragic and irredeemable clouds of war, sometimes filters out some gleam of truth and dignity: 'thoughtful truces', acts of recognition of the 'face of the other', right actions, beyond the simple obedience to the order received. It is the literary narrative that knows how to distinguish, in the 'steel storms' of mass conflict and industrial carnage, no less than in everyday lives, what is 'spiritually typical', the 'spectral dimension' ', as the Austrian writer Robert Musil would have said, in which the human mettle can show itself. One may perhaps think that this magic of disarmament, which is renewed every time in the great narratives, is destined to enlighten - yesterday, today and always - those who, by profession and by simple belonging to the human race, desire and must confront themselves. with the 'question of justice'. To thicken even more this great issue, guiding it to possible answers, it is really the look of literature that has been able to penetrate the extreme destruction of the war, of a war that has been called \u2018Great\u2019. The book - a collection of essays written by lawyers, historians, political scientists, literary and film critics, philosophers and writers - is a painful and participatory search for 'right words', inspired by the stories of those who have crossed the abysses of the conflict. A war that can be named Great also because it really never ended as it epitomized and anticipated many of the horrors of our recent past and of a present that still is not able to free itself from the ghost of \u201cPolemos\u201d, from the hostility towards all those who are or may be deemed as \u2018other\u2019, namely as people somewhat looked and treated as adversarie