On an empty stage, three of the most furious and relevant figures in the West carry on a conversation about violence, war, hell and God. We are witnessing not only the irate beginning of Judeo-Christian society, but also the invention of threat as a genre. León Ferrari dedicated, between 1999 and 2004, a portion of his enormous creative force to this work, the last of the series that he called "literary collages", defined by a theatrical structure and by the construction of the characters' speeches based on the copying and editing of excerpts taken from their original context. Unpublished until this publication, Conversations between Jesus, Jehovah and Hitler takes up and closes this procedure inaugurated with Words of Others (1967), which will be followed by La Basílica (1985; RIPIO, 2020) and Exegesis (1993). This work returns to one of the central hypotheses in the artist's production: the greatest historical phenomena of annihilation, the greatest massacres and human rights violations continue to occur because they obey a tradition of hatred and intolerance present at the base of our societies. The recurrence of these themes is key. In terms of Andrea Giunta: “Leon Ferrari was questioned that he always said the same thing. He claimed that he did it because the things he reported kept happening. To repeat is to resist ”. In these conversations, then, the assertion that it was destruction in the beginning and that, throughout history, Western art has contributed to it with an aura of solemnity and aesthetic sophistication is insisted, not coincidentally.

This is a previously unpublished work.

This edition includes an introduction and a posface after an investigation with the sources consulted by the author.