War

This is not a book about war at all. It is a book about a city and people under siege, both internally and externally. The city is a space inhabited by all of them. It is the nervous system and the circulatory system of each of these people. Each chapter can be read as a separate story, but each story is only completed in the entirety of The War. The War should not be read haphazardly by randomly opening the book, as this creates confusion in its timeline, as well as in the reader’s time. It creates a nightmare with no way out. The War is like a clock and a calendar, a book of precise chronology. Its dramaturgy arises from this chronology, as it happens in every war, and in the mental illness that simulates war. The War must be read in order, because only then can one find a way out of the war, a way out of the besieged city.