Description
On the night between 14 and 15 April 1912, during the fifth day of the maiden voyage, the Titanic scraped its right side against an iceberg. Less than two hundred minutes later she broke apart and disappeared into the still ocean. At that moment the myth of the Titanic began, “The Ship” which broke through the boundaries of the imagination, a perpetual symbol of the fallibility of technology supported by men’s delirium of omnipotence. The jewel of the White Star Line sank taking with it around fifteen hundred people and their stories. A global tragedy, almost a prologue to the catastrophes that would soon overwhelm the world. A mass of reticence and lies covered those responsible for the relentless chain: errors, omissions, carelessness and negligence that caused the disaster destined to be the manifesto and symbol of the twentieth century. Every fragment of the story is reconstructed with impeccable historical rigor and a style as pressing as a novel. We know “almost” everything about the Titanic, but what emerges from these pages is “another story” where the god of money and commercial power on the seas are intertwined with the misery and frenzy of the mass media. And pain with love, indifference, heroism, cowardice. On the “Ship” were the past and future of the short century. An eternal metaphor of our time.
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