Paul Auster’s new book: America trapped by its own weapons.

the famous writer Paul Auster (1947) returned to the world of literature with the title “A country bathed in blood”an interesting book in which he reviews the history of the use of weapons in UNITED STATESthe violence that has taken hold of collective thinking for centuries, which persists until today.

In this text, the author includes photographs of Spencer Ostrander (1984), black-and-white images of the scenes of some thirty mass shootings that reveal how upset their country is.

The North American country, an economic and social benchmark for the West, also has dark sides, such as its alarming homicide rate and the shootings that make international headlines. austere In this book, he takes up the opinions of experts and citizens on the overabundance of firearms, as the main trigger of a crisis with incalculable consequences.

In “A country bathed in blood” (Seix Barral, 2023), the author explores the situation of the average American citizen, who is twenty-five times more likely to receive a bullet impact than any average citizen in the world. The writer, concerned about 400 million firearms in circulation in American hands, addresses one of the main consequences of this proliferation of weapons, the tragic shootings.

Contrary to frivolous publications and factual accounts, austere In this title, he faces one of his most personal passages, a family drama that his father has long hidden from him: her grandmother shot her grandfather, who had left her for another woman. At the same time, it highlights the wounds left by the theft of territory from the natives during the colonial era and slavery.

“More people have been killed in the United States by guns than in all of its wars. every year they die 40,000 American citizens and are injured 80,000 by firearms. It is a public health problem for the country and of the first order, Paul Auster what he does is analyze where all this violence is coming from and the consequences it can have for the population” Elena Ramirez Director of Six Barralsin interview with Atresmedia.

In nearly 200 pages, Paul Auster makes this title an analysis of why UNITED STATES It is the most violent country in the western world. But he also contrasts his writings with the photographs of Spencer Ostrander. The photographer has long devoted himself to visiting and photographing many places where there have been mass shootings, long after they have occurred.

Within personal reconstruction and its relationship to firearms, Respectr tells how from his first years of life he was already considered a great shooter, this at only 10 years old. But he’s not just talking about himself, he’s talking about most American kids of his generation, who grew up between toy guns and westerns about well-armed cowboys. But he also talks about the destruction that weapons have left in families and how violence is part of the national dialectic.

Likewise, with the historical essay, he suggests that the discourse on the right to bear arms intensified after the 1970s. black panthers they adopted it, to be then reconverted by the conservative reaction. austere, depicts a territory in the midst of a battle that has been taking place due to the culture war that has been ravaging the United States, for several years now. The result of doing a bullet sport, like the National Rifle Association, which opposed any restrictions on gun sales.

in the pages of “A country bathed in blood”, the author exposes the damage left by the indiscriminate killings that have reoccurred in schools, churches and mass events. In the text, austere exposes, as in the attacks directed against churches, synagogues or African-American shopping centers frequented by Mexicans, that there is a hateful, racist or xenophobic component.

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