Guglielmo Minervini
On these pages, written with four hands, they do not write war chronicles but confess their story. So, the tragedy of Kosovo went into their lives, becoming part of their individual solutions, reports, and values
That the story told by mass media is partial and generalized in all countries, is a widespread conclusion.
But there is growing demand from the same information maker to escape solid and sterile patterns of chronicles, exiting other areas of freedom not only for conscience but also for reason.
Filippo Landi and Ilire Zajmi, are two journalists, Filippo , a Italian who comes from the world of television, Ilire a Albanian journalist coming from print media. The flow of events in Kosovo has seen them directly with their eyes. Everything is described in the book confession. Filippo has seen the war by staying on the Kosovo border, Ilire has seen from inside.
On these pages, written with four hands, they do not write war chronicles but confess their story. So, the tragedy of Kosovo went into their lives, becoming part of their individual solutions, reports, and values
That the story told by mass media is partial and generalized in all countries, is a widespread conclusion.
But there is growing demand from the same information maker to escape solid and sterile patterns of chronicles, exiting other areas of freedom not only for conscience but also for reason.
Filippo Landi and Ilire Zajmi, are two journalists, Filippo , a Italian who comes from the world of television, Ilire a Albanian journalist coming from print media. The flow of events in Kosovo has seen them directly with their eyes. Everything is described in the book confession. Filippo has seen the war by staying on the Kosovo border, Ilire has seen from inside.
Many have come to know their will and become familiar
with their confession. On
these pages, written with four hands, they do not write war chronicles but
confess their story. So, the tragedy of Kosovo entered their lives, becoming
part of their individual solutions, reports, and values. By
telling how a history of disaster can become a short circuit for the life of an
individual, a community, a nation. How it can change fate, but also engage in
the following events. In
reality, their glances, their events, who meet illegally at the border point,
are transformed into narrative lenses, up to the thrilling feeling that strips
up to the intimacy of the horrors of this war. Ilire’s
narration depicts the anxiety of war, the slow shift of consciousness that
begins with a distant skepticism "war is a weird phenomenon, always thinking
that only others die" and diving into a fatalism, continuing with the
inevitable feeling of fatalism impotence
"who can prevent a war of tragic
dimensions in Kosovo? No one seems to
me. "
And in the psychological journey that starts from the
unbelievable to the possible, it just goes to the point where war becomes
inevitable and indispensable. Dynamic
rhythm, pure parody, Ilire' s suppressive desire to understand, allow building
a chain of reactions that causes the inevitable outbreak of violence, expanding
accurately the moment when the understanding of the way of retaliation is overcome
as a feeling, and the report ofiIrreversible pieces are broken. Ilire’s
confession often uses the metaphor of love and destiny. The
idea of coexistence
between cultures and nations as an expression of a love affair is a very
precious figure of peace or "coexistence of differences". The
idea of war, treated as
a loving disruption of disillusionment, is the dominant politics of endless
thirst for domination, "the coexistence between the two nations seems
impossible to me. They
have gone too far this time. And like any
other coexistence, every love has its own destiny. And the end ".
It is different, however, the pilgrimage of Filippo. His
vision follows another path, beginning with the decomposition of a
"humanitarian catastrophe" and continuing with an incredible finding
of "a mass deportation" planned in a very rational way. Even
in the story of Filippo, there is a description of a chain of reactions that
last long on the Balkan land, starting from the escape of the persecuted victims
and systematic genocide: "I who visited Dachau, do not believe that after
fifty years, In
Europe, a new mass deportation could be organized. " In
this sequence, Filippo’s narration captures the point at which the war has
managed to program the exile of an entire nation to physically eradicate its
existence. It
is this time when the war in Kosovo takes place on two fronts, that of the
sophisticated technology of Western bomber aircraft, and the deportation of a
whole nation: "The tragedy must have enough victims, before touching the
human conscience ". This
hybrid is a new chapter that the war has followed to affirm its devastating
sovereignty. Ilire’s
vitality and the authentic story of Filippo
make up the opposite of what appears: "everything that is said and
declared is nothing but a triumph of violence in a territory that counts 146
ethnic groups”.
The brutal character of the war, increasingly relentless
to civilians, is the result of the differences that coexisted during the Balkan
tragedies, and they express the urgent need for a peace policy for which air
bombing represents only a hypocrisy of confrontation.A policy that delivers new horizons of coexistence, starting exactly from Europe, one of the most positive models of policy success in the century that we are leaving behind.
Preface of the book “Një tren për Bllacë” -
