journalist and writer Roberto Saviano (Naples, 1979) Published in 2006 GomorrahIn that book, he describes in detail the business of the Camorra, the mafia in his hometown, and from then on, like Salman Rushdie, he had to live in a secret location with a permanent escort. scream It’s a symbolic response to what the loss of freedom means for something as simple as telling the truth.
Combining autobiographical elements with fascinating reflections, Saviano presents 30 stories of people who were persecuted for various reasons but who, despite all adversity, always held their own ideas in this wide-ranging and agile book. Each chapter forms a kind of map, separated by different questions (such as “Are you going to scream when you find out it’s a hundred to one?”) and each story ends with a moral cry (“Shout that they judge you by what you do, not by what you are. But shout that you will always stand for what you are”).
The protagonists are examples of courage. There are unavoidable names like Giordano Bruno and Martin Luther King. Important cases include the ancient philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, the poet Anna Akhmatova, or Emile Zola (the Dreyfus case). But Saviano also focuses on current examples. For example, journalists. Arab Jamal Khashoggi, Russia’s Anna Politkovskaya and Malta’s Daphne Caruana Galizia. Unlike him, they were killed. There are some surprising names, like actress Jean Seberg. scream In this way, this is both a dynamic essay and a cry of indignation, a debate to which no one can remain indifferent.
scream
Written by Roberto Saviano
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Translation: Juan Manuel Salmeron Arjona
514 pages
$40,500
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