바카라Here I am walking toward the land of the poem. a visitor? A refugee? A citizen? A guest? I do not know.
Is this a political moment? Or an emotional one? Or social? A practical moment? A surreal one? A moment of the body? Or of the mind?바카라
바카라 Mourid Barghouti, Palestinian writer and poet
It is all of these moments for us. Political, emotional, and social. A surreal one, too. War is an ontological devastation. This is an issue in protest of the reduction of people, their lives, and their dreams in their minds and in the minds of others.
All wars must be resisted. By pen and in our hearts. It is not easy to record ordinary human conversations during a war. It can make one very, very sad.
It isn바카라t easy to read testimonials from an ongoing war on Gaza.
The war is never elsewhere. The war shows us who we are. The war is a lot of things. Economics, politics, etc.
The war is also people.
We decided to talk about war in our anniversary and year-ender issue. In these 100 pages, people tell us their stories in their voices. We were inspired by the 바카라documentary story바카라 approach of the Belarusian investigative journalist and oral historian Svetlana Alexievich who also won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her work in 2015.
바카라Right after the war, Theodor Adorno wrote, in shock: 바카라Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.바카라 My teacher, Ales Adamovich, whose name I mention today with gratitude, felt that writing prose about the nightmares of the 20th century was sacrilege. Nothing may be invented. You must give the truth as it is. A 바카라super-literature바카라 is required. The witness must speak. Nietzsche바카라s words come to mind 바카라 no artist can live up to reality. He can바카라t lift it,바카라 she says.
In her lecture, she says she became the human ear. Conversations are important.
바카라I ask myself what kind of book I want to write about war. I바카라d like to write a book about a person who doesn바카라t shoot, who can바카라t fire on another human being, who suffers at the very idea of war. Where is he? I haven바카라t met him,바카라 Alexievich says.
We wanted to write about those people in this issue and ask them to tell us what they went through. In these pages, we talk about love, a difficult thing to talk about in this day and age where fear and hatred reign and we lose by the day.
Even as I write this, bombs are falling on people, their homes, and their children. Many are lost to us.
What I see from the war are shoes of bloodied shoes of children, their toys, and their little lifeless bodies. The images haunt me.
The act of bearing witness is a primary responsibility of a journalist. That very act has been replaced by cacophony and othering of people in the media. We weren바카라t on the ground but for weeks, we searched social media for people who were posting about their lives in war.
We reached out to them with the hope that they will talk to us. We remain grateful to them and I am also in awe of our reporters and everyone in the team who kept at it despite the odds. There were times when we would write to dozens of people and receive not a single response. But we never abandoned hope and we never abandoned the story.
It is wartime. And all wartimes must be recorded.
Alexievich says she is interested in little people. She says, 바카라The little, great people, is how I would put it, because suffering expands people. In my books these people tell their own, little histories, and big history is told along the way. We haven바카라t had time to comprehend what already has and is still happening to us, we just need to say it. To begin with, we must at least articulate what happened. We are afraid of doing that, we바카라re not up to coping with our past. In Dostoevsky바카라s Demons, Shatov says to Stavrogin at the beginning of their conversation: 바카라We are two creatures who have met in boundless infinity 바카라 for the last time in the world. So drop that tone and speak like a human being. At least once, speak with a human voice.바카라바카라
This is that voice. This issue. For everyone to read and understand and be human.
This issue is to tell the people who are suffering that we bear witness.
From the editor바카라s desk.
