Antonia is a beautiful orphan girl, raised in the seventeenth century, in a small town in the Po valley. His life takes place at the time of the witch hunt: death at the stake is his conviction, after agonizing torture and approximate charges. "The chimera" by Sebastiano Vassalli, who tells his story, is not just a historical novel and not just a document on the processes of the Inquisition.
If you think it is just that, review it: find a manual for this. What
face justice and that has a domain, these are the questions that motivates us. Full of meaning and a description of the moments in which Antonia is hoisted at the stake, when the villagers shouting and praising his death. People, the author is at pains to point out that were not bad. He was hardworking people, the same as in our This crowded stadiums, watching TV, go to the polls. Normal people. Chilling truth that remains to be determined then.
Justice, far from being the moral virtue, is essentially what is socially accepted, roughly what the community thinks is right.
As we speak also of women, this book? The tortures of the Inquisition alternate sexual captors rape Antonia. With torture, ecclesiastical power inspects her body, investigates his flesh. Other characters, the tramp of the area, commenting that the woman is like a pig: you do not throw anything away. Reduced meat to handle, in fact it is not surprising the comparison that centuries of patriarchal culture have created between a woman and bestiality.
common destiny of oppression, justice as coarse popular belief, "The Chimaera" speaks not only that, but it surely is clear.
References
Sebastiano Vassalli, The chimera, Einaudi, Torino 1990
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