The Moro Affair

The Moro Affair

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On March 16, 1978 Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister of Italy, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the terrorist group the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on March 18 they said he would be tried in a "people's court of justice." Seven weeks later Moro's bod...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published May 31st 2004 by NYRB Classics (first published 1978)
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Iain
I read this after seeing the brilliant Italian film Il Divo. One of the main points in the film is the real life kidnap and murder of politician Aldo Moro by the communist Red Brigade, this book is an attempt to explain what happened. Leonardo Sciascia is regarded as one of the best non-english writers in the world, his fiction focuses on corruption and crime in Italy. Sciascia was also a politician and was commisioned to write a report on the Moro crime. This book is a compilation of his opinio...more
Nick
Sciascia analyzes the documents associated with the kidnapping of Moro through the lens of certain ideas of Jorge Luis Borges -- that history is not an inquiry into truth, but the creator of it, that the reading of documents at one time must mean something completely different than the reading of them at another time. So the reading of the letters and news articles of the time it happened, today brings new light to whatever "truth" may have been present when Moro, the Italian politican, was kidn...more
arcobaleno
Devo dire di aver iniziato a fatica la lettura, ma di non averci poi messo molto a farmi prendere... a tal punto da non poterne fare a meno, anzi, da arrivare a desiderarla, per procedere senza interruzione fino all’ultima pagina.
Il ‘caso’ è noto; per la mia generazione è anche vissuto, sia dal punto di vista politico che umano, e può rappresentare ora un ricordo personale, in un momento preciso. Ma queste pagine lo ripropongono in maniera chiara e oggettiva, sintetica e ‘pulita’. E non si avve...more
David-Baptiste Chirot
I am almost done the first of the two short books within this volume--this is an incredible book! Schiasia examines the events of the Moro kindapping and eventual execuation through the letters written by Moro, which newspapers they appeared in, various documents of the actual moments--from the dialy media of the time (1978). What he is doing is examing not the hisotry per se of the vents, but their written documents as literture within history. The book becomes a fascinating exploration of writ...more
Phoebes
Credevo fosse un racconto dei fatti, invece è una rivisione di Sciascia che dà per scontata la conoscenza delle varie fasi del sequestro Moro. Comunque, nonostante la mia ignoranza, ho potuto apprezzare, anche se non condividere pienamente, l’analisi che fa Sciascia della vicenda.
Nel complesso il libro non mi è piaciuto moltissimo, ma lo sapevo già, trattandosi di un’”inchiesta” e non di un romanzo. Vedremo però se i prossimi sapranno catturarmi di più!

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Mariapia
Stile e contenuto. Cosa chiedere di più? Ecco: la relazione di minoranza presentata da Sciascia (deputato e membro della "Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sulla strage di via Fani, il sequestro e l'assassinio di Aldo Moro, la strategia e gli obiettivi perseguiti dai terroristi") inserita in coda. Un atto completo di analisi e denuncia.
Lettura immancabile.
Tara
I loved the politics and the way he analyzed every letter with such care.
Dario
Romanzo-saggio non sempre scorrevole.
Eustachio
Non conoscevo Sciascia prima di questo libro. Sono bastate centottanta pagine perché ottenesse la mia stima.
Il modo in cui analizza le lettere di Moro dalla prigionia, in cui cerca di interpretarle e di trovare i messaggi nascosti, e poi le domande che si pone sull'inefficienza delle forze dell'ordine e tutte le strane coincidenze che ruotano attorno al Caso: formidabile.
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May 10, 2013 Andrew Rice marked it as to-read
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Leonardo Sciascia wrote of his unique Sicilian experience, linking families with political parties, the treachery of alliances and allegiances and the calling of favours that resort in outcomes that are not for the benefit of society, but of those individuals who are in favour.
Sciascia perhaps, in the end, wanted to prove that the corruption that was and is endemic in Italian society helps only t...more
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