Friday 15 Novemberat 5.30 pm, at the San Paolo bookshop in Genoa (piazza Matteotti 31-33r) the presentation of the book is scheduled Writing about war. Stories, techniques, culture the care of Davide Arecco (City of Silence editions). Don Paolo Fontana will dialogue with Davide Arecco.
In full conflict Russian-Ukrainian e Arab-Israelithe strong protagonism that the speech about war in the various fields of communicationeven literary, requires a historiographical reflection that investigates its meaning and delves into its main declinations through different places, eras and contexts. It should not be forgotten that aactivities and practices of a warlike nature werethroughout the modern age, something usual, habitual, almost inherent to the very life of Europeand this dramatic familiarity was contrasted with an effective one “culture of peace” only slowly and late, in the eighteenth century of the Enlightenment. The volume addresses the topic through an interdisciplinary approach which, in defining in general terms the presence of war in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries, takes on, as a specific object of study, the culture-war nexuswhich also, throughout history, has had its own fruitful and peculiar voice.
