Roberto Saviano. A Few Words about Contaminating His Own Nest and Its Consequences

Weronika Korzeniecka

(Uniwersytet Jagielloński)
E-mail: weronika.korzeniecka[at]gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-4586-0587
DOI: 10.31261/FLPI.2020.02.09
„Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica” 2020, nr 1, s. 109-126

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Abstract

Roberto Saviano is an Italian writer and investigative journalist who has been living under strict police protection for thirteen years. He wrote Gomorrah, a bestselling book, that drew the mafia’s attention and resulted in a death sentence. Life in hiding is a price he pays for revealing the harsh truth about the activity of Neapolitan Camorra. The aim of this paper is to investigate what drives his uncompromising pursuit for truth, the strategies he uses to achieve this aim, and the response to his approach, coming from Italian politicians, intellectuals, ordinary people, and international general public.