Stuart M. Kaminsky
Death on the Golden Path, Freestyle Noir , 2005
rating 9 / 10
Stuart M. Kaminsky was born in Chicago and member of the 'Hard Boiled Renaissance' of the seventies (of which James Crumley is certainly the most significant representative) has been a revelation for myself. How many authors of the genre, hangover or less celebrated masters of Chandler and Hammett, unfortunately, at least in Italy, it's still too little. Fortunately in recent years have witnessed a partial clearance of what can be more or less included in that cauldron that is called noir, this was surely due to the spread of best-selling authors like that, read James Ellroy, in addition to the intelligent layman's work in the media of sound and competent enthusiast, a all Carlo Lucarelli, which among other things founded by Luigi Bernardi, the wonderful series 'Noir' for freestyle Einaudi. Kaminsky, as well as having created many fortunate people, especially Rostnikov, the inspector Moscow protagonist of a popular series of novels, has worked with big names in international cinema of the seventies, contributing nothing to the dialogues of There was a Time in America Sergio Leone.
Death on the Golden Path Hard Boiled explicitly reiterates the vein of the forties and the figure of the detective Toby Peters, penniless and alone, womanizer and often outsider , ironically recalls and convincing strokes of originality Spade and the Continental Op predecessors Beyond dell'accattivante incipit, and the tragicomic grotesque murder of a dwarf (Marameo) on the set of The Wizard of Oz Fleming, surely one of the most interesting of the book is very successful mixture of facts and fictional characters and real situations, which ascribes the novel in the now consolidated faction, now a general characteristic of postmodernism. Peters will have to do it, among others, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Louis B. Mayer, and even with humor and style, combined with an obvious devotion to the author, with Raymond Chandler. Character very successful one created by Kaminsky, light and original features which adds to a tradition already been codified, but without joining the move to overturn a sincere love for the genre to an undeniable narrative talent.
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