Javier Marías’s latest novel, ‘Tomás Nevinson’ (2021), is more than spectacular, elevates the morality of murder. Is it permissible in terms of ethics and justice to send someone who is found to have committed or disclosed terrible acts to another neighborhood? irrefutable intentions that sooner or later you will realize them? Is it legitimate for a State to decide, without any constitutional order, the life of a serial killer or a terrorist with dozens of vendettas behind him?
Both questions most of us would answer with a resounding no, if we close the circle around a genocide, a tyrant, a bloodthirsty dictator who can incite, authorize and practice indiscriminate killing, let’s put a kind of genocide doomed to extinction. population by reason of being born or residing in a particular geographic area or by ethnic or religious background. The discovery of a large number of drones flying over the Kremlin suggests that Russia is either considering the possibility of foreign agents killing Vladimir Putin or is trying to argue that Russia has accusations that the United States or the military it commands are behind the incident. Zelenskyverify that someone (so messy and ethereal to be “someone”) started the ad.
The morality of the murder he invites to his reflection Javier Marias raises a double debate. As Democrats, we cannot accept that no citizen should pay with their lives for actions that lead to inconceivable values. But we are confident that, as in the case of Putin and many other rulers like him, his stay in power will continue to cause irreparable suffering and the death of innocent men, women and children who are in no way responsible. For a conflict between States, unaware of the expansionist desire of an autocrat who is willing to take the lives of thousands of people in order to establish hegemony over a land and subjugate a sovereign nation.
It turns out that the issue of drones flying over it has emerged. red square As if it were advisable not to mess with the hornet’s nest, it did not spark further international murmur beyond the accusations leveled at each other. Nothing can be overlooked when it comes to the dangers posed by a head of state in the profile of Putin, whom we do not know not only initiating the conflict in Ukraine, but who we are sure will not back down in his campaign against the occupied people. including the bombing of major cities, gang rape, destruction, refugee exodus, and the unbearable terror that the proximity of invading soldiers must produce.
History has always been accustomed to regret that after the commission of barbarism, assassination attempts on a holocaust did not turn out to be successful. Marías deftly illustrates the attempts to end Adolf Hitler’s life—some fictional, others based on real events (they tried to kill him 42 times and were unsuccessful). counter Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen’s disappointmentAuthor of ‘Diary of a Desperate Man’, who succeeded in killing the tyrant in Osteria Bavaria in 1932. He didn’t and ended up in Dachau. Johann George Essler approached on November 8, 1939. He carefully prepared for a device to explode at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich as Hitler was going to speak to his party members, but he delayed his speech 13 minutes and the bomb exploded. later Seven people died, none of them named Adolf Hitler. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg approached in July 1944 in Operation Valkyrie. A last-minute change to the order of the briefcase bombs that would have killed the Führer in the Wolf’s Den enabled him to survive the attempt. It is still paradoxical that the most feared mercenary group in Russia bears the Wagner name.
Could it be morally justified to try to kill Putin in order to stop the barbarism in Ukraine or the possible conflicts that result from it? “If you know who it is, you can see that the killing isn’t that extreme or that difficult and unjust,” the narrator says. “Thomas Nevinson”, a novel phrase that belongs to the world of fiction and arises from the imagination of an author. But geopolitics and literature don’t always go hand in hand.