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Italian Crime Fiction
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Author : Giulana Pieri
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2011-10-15
Italian Crime Fiction written by Giulana Pieri and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Italian Crime Fiction is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian detective and noir fiction from the 1930s to the present. The eight chapters include studies on some of the founding fathers of the Italian tradition, and mainstream writers. The volume has a particular focus on the new generation of crime writers.
Traitors To All
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Author : Giorgio Scerbanenco
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Traitors To All written by Giorgio Scerbanenco and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Fiction categories.
From the godfather of Italian noir “A noir writer richly deserving rediscovery.” —Publishers Weekly One balmy spring evening on the outskirts of Milan, a Fiat with two passengers plunges into a canal. At first, their deaths are registered as an accident. But Duca Lamberti, the doctor-turned-detective of Giorgio Scerbanenco’s legendary series, suspects there’s more to it than that. Because that same canal has been the scene of other deaths, and all the incidents have one man in common: a lawyer with a murky past stretching all the way back to World War II—a man who, in fact, once shared a prison cell with Lamberti. Winner of the most prestigious European crime prize on its original publication in 1966, Traitors to All is classic noir by one of the greatest writers of the genre—a book that lays bare the connections between Milan’s troubled history during the war and its swinging sixties affluence, as well as an utterly absorbing tale of betrayal and revenge.
The Fault
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Author : Thomas Hiller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-04
The Fault written by Thomas Hiller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-04 with categories.
The Fault portrays the ambiguous condition of the Italian nation in the years preceding the global financial crisis. Worrying symptoms are piling, but nobody knows that around the corner the smashing wave of an unpredictable tsunami is mounting. Just a deceptive omen is floating in the air. Meanwhile, the trafficking of immigrants coming from the most disparate parts of the world, a business managed by ruthless organizations, is becoming an epochal phenomenon fueled by the increasing flow of desperate people moving from Africa. In this confused scenario is concealed the relentless engine moving the main character together with the reality around, a sort of malfunctioning, a threatening transmutation of the overall social and economic framework which affects his individual psychology. This is what the word "Fault" in the title is meant to convey: an evil malfunctioning of the individual psychology, as well as a fracture that will separate the present and the future social landscape of an entire nation from what had been before, without possible recovery. Engaging and enigmatic to the end, the Fault is a disorienting puzzle of stark passions and social issues that suddenly turn in crime investigation. But no investigation can enlighten the darkness of love. The Story Did you ever get stuck in an IMPOSSIBLE LOVE AFFAIR? With someone you know you can't trust but want still to believe in? This novel will tell you all about it! Until death will put an abrupt full stop to the passion game. Alessandro is a successful manager crossing his midlife crisis. Displeased by his whole lifestyle, he has resigned from his job and is facing divorce. In a foolish last quest for freedom and love, he puts himself in trouble starting a passion game among dangerous acquaintances and ends up in a deadly trap, when murder breaks on the scene. There are many possible suspects, including Alessandro, and only one single uncertain clue can lead the readers to the final discovery. When the case seems finally solved almost by chance, the ending twists with persisting intrigues and achieves an aura of spiritual mystery, raising many new doubts. NOTE: The content of the paperback is equivalent to The Fault - Second Edition of the Kindle eBook.
Uncertain Justice
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Author : Nicoletta Di Ciolla
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-05-22
Uncertain Justice written by Nicoletta Di Ciolla and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The crime genre entered Italy in the late nineteenth century, and if initially Italian authors followed models developed abroad—principally in the United States, England and France—a uniquely Italian brand began to emerge soon. Il giallo, as the crime genre has been known in Italy since the 1930s, proved to be the ideal instrument to confront pressing and often uncomfortable issues which were pertinent to the Italian context: it became a useful tool to restore, symbolically at least, the truth and justice that were, and still are, perceived by a large part of the Italian reading public to be systematically denied in reality. In today’s Italy, the crime genre, and particularly its noir sub-genre, narrates so that readers might remember, so that they might take heed and action, turning cognition into an act of resistance against oblivion and of rebellion against injustice. Uncertain Justice explores three broad areas that contemporary Italian noir literature appears particularly keen to debate, retrieving them from the silence to which they might otherwise be consigned: unresolved historical and political legacies, the repercussions of which still inform and affect life and practices in the present times; the problematic institution of the family, considered as the bedrock of Italian culture and the founding principle of Italian society, with specific attendant questions of gender politics; and the justice system seen through some of its operators, nominally in charge of putting the wrongs right and frequently accused of preventing this from happening. These explorations are conducted through an analysis of texts published in the last twenty years, which represent an effort to expose and counter injustice through the power of the word. Crime literature authors often revisit recent Italian history in their novels, and genre fiction plays a prominent role in acts of resistance against cover-ups or revisionist views of history. The volume starts with an analysis of this role, through novels that look back at the years of the fascist regime and, more recently, at the period from the anni di piombo onwards. It then considers the contribution made to the giallo and noir genre by women writers, looking at the effects that female practitioners in Italy have had on the ethics and aesthetics of a genre that, in other cultures, has traditionally been firmly conservative. A further section examines novels set in a familial context and looks at a range of family dynamics, expressed in the relationships between mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, large extended families or small nuclear ones. If some of the texts expose the devastating effects of the violence perpetrated “in the name of love,” others more positively offer hope, demonstrating how more desirable options do exist and can be pursued. Finally the volume looks at justice as a system and at its practitioners, as, in an interesting development peculiar to Italy, a significant number of judges, lawyers and senior police officers have recently become involved in crime fiction writing. The concluding chapter investigates the contribution that these “specialists,” who have extensive theoretical and technical knowledge in a field which crime fiction routinely frequents, can make to the genre; it also analyses whether these authors, who bring together the moral function of unveiling the truth (prerogative of the investigator) and the social function of rectifying a wrong (prerogative of the upholders of the law), may have a role in forming a more ethically and socially aware Italian citizen.
The Goodbye Kiss
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Author : Massimo Carlotto
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-01-01
The Goodbye Kiss written by Massimo Carlotto and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Fiction categories.
"The best living Italian crime writer."-Il Manifesto An unscrupulous womanizer, as devoid of morals now as he once was full of idealistic fervor, returns to Italy, where he is wanted for a series of crimes. To earn himself the guise of respectability, he is willing to go as far as murder.
Contemporary Italian Narrative And 1970s Terrorism
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Author : David Ward
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-13
Contemporary Italian Narrative And 1970s Terrorism written by David Ward and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism. It explores how contemporary Italian writers have developed narrative strategies that enable them to represent the fraught experience of Italian terrorism in the 1970s. In its conclusions, the book suggests that to meet the challenge of representation posed by terrorism fiction rather than fact is the writer’s best friend and most effective tool.
Class Crime And International Film Noir
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Author : D. Broe
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Class Crime And International Film Noir written by D. Broe and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Performing Arts categories.
Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan.
A Private Venus
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Author : Giorgio Scerbanenco
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2014-03-25
A Private Venus written by Giorgio Scerbanenco and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Fiction categories.
"A noir writer richly deserving rediscovery." —Publishers Weekly The book that gave birth to Italian noir . . . Milan, 1966: When Dr. Duca Lamberti is released from prison, he’s lost his medical license and his options are few. But thanks to an old connection, he lands a job, although it’s a tricky one: guarding the alcoholic son of a plastics millionaire. But Lamberti soon discovers that the young man has a terrible secret, rooted in the mysterious death of a beautiful woman on the gritty side of town. The fast cars, high fashion, and chic nightclubs of glitzy and swinging Milan conceal a dirty reality . . . This is no dolce vita. A Private Venus marks the beginning of Italian noir: Giorgio Scerbanenco pioneered a new type of novel that trained its gaze on the crime and desperation that roiled under prosperous Italian society in the 1960s. And at the heart of this book is Duca Lamberti, an unforgettable protagonist: obsessive, world-weary, unconventional in his methods, and trying hard not to make another fatal mistake. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Bandit Love
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Author : Massimo Carlotto
language : en
Publisher: Europa Editions
Release Date : 2010-09-28
Bandit Love written by Massimo Carlotto and has been published by Europa Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-28 with Fiction categories.
PI Marco “the Alligator” Buratti returns in a thriller from the author whose “brand of crime writing is tougher than even the toughest American noir” (Josh Bazell, national bestselling author). Massimo Carlotto has been described as “the reigning king of Mediterranean noir” (Boston Phoenix), “about as gritty as they come” (The New York Times), and “the best living Italian crime writer” (Il Manifesto). Now, he gives his American readers his most memorable character yet: ex-con turned private investigator Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator. Closing the door on a crime-ridden past, Buratti plans to spend the rest of his days in the darkness of a seedy nightclub sipping Calvados and listening to the blues. But things don’t quite work out as he planned: though he may be through with his past, his past isn’t through with him. When his gangster friend Beniamino Rossini’s girlfriend is kidnapped, Buratti is forced to investigate a case of international drug dealing. He will be thrown headfirst into the underworld he has struggled to escape. In the world of Massimo Carlotto’s fiction, new and old criminal organizations collide and innocent bystanders are as hard to find as honest cops. “A cocktail of mystery and romanticism, a novel in which there are no real heroes and no signs of redemption. In short, classic Carlotto.” —Rolling Stone (Italy) “A gripping novel that can be read on different levels, as a breathtakingly dark noir novel or as a means of penetrating reality. These two levels magically blend in Massimo Carlotto’s books.” —Il Manifesto “The setting is beautifully—if grimly—realized. La dolce vita it ain’t—but this is top-notch Mediterranean noir.” —Kirkus Reviews
Euro Noir
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Author : Barry Forshaw
language : en
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Release Date : 2014-05-30
Euro Noir written by Barry Forshaw and has been published by Oldcastle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Euro Noir examines the astonishing success of European fiction and drama which is often edgier, grittier and more compelling than some of its British or American equivalents, and provides a highly readable guide for those wanting to look further than the obvious choices. Euro Noir provides the perfect shopping list for what to watch or read before that trip to Paris, Rome or Berlin. The invasion of foreign crime fiction, films and TV (not just the Scandinavian variety) has transformed the crime shelves of bookshops and DVD stores. But the sheer volume of new European writers and films is daunting and there is a keen need for a guide to the field. Euro Noir presents a roadmap to the territory and is the perfect travel guide to the genre. From Italy, such influential authors as Andrea Camilleri and Leonardo Sciascia and Mafia crime dramas Romanzo Criminale and Gomorrah, along with the gruesome Gialli crime films. From France and Belgium, important writers from Maigret creator Georges Simenon to today's Fred Vargas, cult television programmes Braquo and Spiral and films, from the classic heist movie Rififi to modern greats such as Hidden, Mesrine and Tell No One. German and Austrian greats such as Jakob Arjouni and Jan Costin Wagner, crime films including Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. Along with the best crime writing and filmmaking from Spain, Portugal, Greece, Holland and other European countries. 'An informative, interesting, accessible and enjoyable guide as Forshaw guides us through the crime output of a dozen nations' - Times 'An exhilarating tour of Europe viewed through its crime fiction' - Guardian Look out for the other books in Barry Forshaw's Noir series, Nordic Noir, Brit Noir, American Noir and Historical Noir, and for his latest book, Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide.