War, from the prism of the child
- The sky collapses: Lorenza Mazzetti. Rana, 2012
Lorenza Mazzetti, an 86-year-old Italian film director and writer, came to the pages of Argia with Fernando Rey and Xabier Olarra. The sky collapses as much as autobiographical novels, interviews with members of the editorial Igela deserve attention (http://www.argia.eus/argia-astekaria/2413/ lorenza mazzetti). Because while building a map of the tragedies lived on your skin, it serves to contextualize the narrative, it explains the causes and keys of the book's writing.
The narrative is completed from the child's point of view, which gives strength, grace and tension to the novel. The imaginaries of the two protagonists and the values that give to what is learned in the doctrine are often astonished. It's also the need to mention lifelong love and to graduate people accordingly.
Heaven, which the author himself had saved from his own suicide, collapses when he wrote it. However, the result led the writer beyond therapy. Literally praised, for example, by film director Federico Fellini, he said it was the most fun book ever read from the war. Above all, it can be said that it is a denunciation of fascism and religious fundamentalism.
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