James Crumley, The Wrong Case Einaudi 2008 
Tibor Fischer's The Thought Gang zetetica or the art of bank robbery Edizioni Garzanti 1999 
Marek Krajewski The End of the World in Breslau , Einaudi Stile Libero, 2008 
Dave Barry Tricky Business , Instar Books 2004 rating 9 / 10
just a story light and exhilarating, fast, original, told with real style.
Augusten Burroughs Cunnilingusville , Mondadori 2007 would not be worth the trouble to even consider this book, but as I read it and I promised myself to also point out the negative books, say a few words on two Cunnilingusville. Sexuality (best as possible diverted), maladjustment, explicit language and critical institutional sales, and of course many try. Who with style and taste, as David Sedaris (see Holiday on Ice), some with a string of hotels cliché, with a do complaining and nothing sharp or as original as Burroughs, resulting in a queer hysterical outburst of boring as well as unpleasant.
Stuart M. Kaminsky Blood and Rubles , Hobby & Work Publishing 1998 Italian
rating 7 / 10
Stuart M. Kaminsky LEW FONESCA wrongful , Alacran 2009
votes 6.5 / 10
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.
Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock , Einaudi Stile Libero, 2001
rating 8 / 10
well Luca Conti says in an afterword, when framed in the coordinates Todoroviane George Stroud:
The crime is done in the first pages and suspicions of the police focus on a certain person (the main character). To prove his innocence, he must contrive to find the culprit, even if it means he risks his life. We can say that, in this case, the main character is both the detective, the culprit (in the eyes of the police) and the victim (potential) of the real murderers. a
and similarly known as sharply, despite the chorus of voices, but never for a second degree, focused on a single event, the structure of the novel can not be ascribed in focus Multiple internal theorized by Genette 2. Crime and the guilty are known from the beginning, and, paradoxically, the protagonist will have to investigate itself (with nearly unlimited available sources) to prove his guilt, all the orders of his boss, the real murderess. The book is a series of short chapters narrated in first person, in which almost all the players tell the story in which they are involved. The development of the story is then given from the evolution of the investigations, the crime you know everything at once, but by the protagonist's attempts to juggle the huge gear mechanisms 3 that he helps create. Fearing outlines the characters in an essential and intelligent, does mean everything to them, often with a genuinely surprising and successful posting the obvious, until the reader comes to know of the affair more of the same protagonists. Despite the apparent structural complexity, the story develops in a linear fashion, with the points of view on almost never contemporary, the narrative engine is powered by tiny bits of history combined with compelling characters - such as the beautiful and successful figure of the bartender junk.
1 Tzvetan Todorov, type of detective story, in " Comparison ," No 202, pp 3-14, 1966, then in Poétique de la prose, pp. 55-65, Seuil, Paris 1971 (trad. it. Poetics of Prose: the laws of narrative , Bompiani, Milano 1995)
2 new accounts proves to be very careful in take as an example of applying this theory the film 'Rashomon' of Kurosawa
3 The huge gear acute is the translation of the title in the first Italian edition
Walter Mosley Little Scarlett, Einaudi Freestyle Noir, 2008
6 vote (political) / 10
Walter Mosley, Little Scarlet , Einaudi 2008
Booooring, say an American. Rather than boring, Mosley's book is actually really obvious, despite the obvious claim to reflect on major issues and at the same outlining memorable characters. 'One of the most complex of contemporary noir, the only true heir of the legendary private detective of Chandler and Hammet' triumphalist reads the back cover; agree that you must sell the book, however, say two is a nonsense in two lines bit ' too. It must be admitted that Mosley is a good storyteller, with a smooth and linear style, and although the pace is a bit 'patchy and fragmented, the result can be understood but not enthusiastic. A narrative, however slight, which reduces the contents of a list of cliches . Easy Rawlins is a detective by profession, as so often in the genre, but a veteran of World War II in color, which is to investigate a murder during the uprising in Los Angeles in August 1965.
is explicitly on the side of African Americans, in a continuous 'our poor people against the white slave masters and a corrupt and indifferent towards us', not because they refused, in its purity of thought, to help a deserving white, from which it will, as all who know him, infinite gratitude for his lucid pity. Beyond the buried image of the hero without blemish and without fear, that even more out of place in urban America of the sixties, one could be this simple one-way thinking as an attempt to contextualize the character in the historical situation, as say, a black man in Watts in 1965 could only think so. Can be justified and consistent effort, but certainly neither complex nor too decent, with the aggravating fact that the book was written in 2004, by the time we could now compare well with other descendants of Hammett and Chandler. Another attempt to cut the figure of Rawlins, if not original, at least unusual, is to give it an unconventional family: two adopted children and a faithless wife. Crumley had done with piercing sweetness, while Mosley is caught by the pathos and patina of decency that permeates the whole book: the children are of course two unfortunate that he has saved from a doomed future, and it goes without saying, I love it, while the wife, ran the first time with none other than a prince, has always ensured that it never had intercourse with her lover. In short, even when it loses not lose out much, and what looks like the engine to a well-deserved escapade is resolved with the hero who sacrifices a chaste love the scent of youth not to fall short of its responsibilities. In short, Rawlins is a real winner, and without even much effort. In a besieged city where street violence reigns he can investigate without problems, without having to devise intricate ploys to gain access to situations that are normally forbidden to ordinary citizens since, almost sensing his immaculate mission of justice, the powerful deputy chief of police gives him a pass that allows him to move anywhere without having to give an explanation of sorts to the various authorities. The reality is hard-boiled heroes made, and therein lies much of their charm, the outcasts of society: drug dealers, prostitutes, bartenders seedy, petty criminals and fraudsters. Even in his knowledge of the delinquent hero Mosley is particularly lucky: one is simply the most dangerous criminal in LA (sic), while the other, small crook, is an undisputed genius, and of course both have the hero their valuable gratitude.
when it needs to heal Rawlins turns to a mysterious magician, the repository of ancestral tribal remedies far more effective than any white man's medicine, which stupidly does not recognize the validity and power of fascinating traditions of African Americans, come from think about the good old days when the detective is stuffed with amphetamines and codeine to drive twelve hundred miles without being overwhelmed by fatigue and pain.
Even the dreams of Rawlins are clear and explicit (the metaphor really ridiculous dream of him every reason to continue trying to clean a reality destined to get dirty).
short Mosley's hero is a womanizer, invincible, generous, fair, determined, with clear ideas, lucky, and modest;
'My luck was unbelievable. I only had to stay at your desk, and everything I wanted - sex, love, information ...- I reached by phone or knocking on the door '.
resulting really passed out or just boring place, especially for the alleged overt and absolutely failed, to give the book a memorable tone, just because it attempts to fit into a genre that owes its greatness to overcome, too many years before, just those cliché draws strength from which the main character of Little Scarlet .
Cara Italy - Carlo Rosselli from RosaRossaPuglia on Vimeo .
PSI - PSE Italian Socialist Party of European Socialists Party
http:// www. you seems to know cia list. it - www.-European initiative. eu WWW. PES . ORG / EN CONTRIBUTION TO DEBATES OF 8 February 2011 to pes Social Network For Europe's Gianni Copetti PSI (Partito Socialista Italiano) Project Manifesto for the "social Europe" and "European federation of peoples." The manifesto was drafted by a working group of civil society in collaboration with the PSI Brussels Europa
"Europe is a solution, not Problems ";" we are not bringing together states, we are getting closer to people. " Unlike these aphorisms of Jean Monnet, the policies of "Brussels" are now widely perceived as a threat against the economic, social and professional and most of the public are not interested to see a fault by influence them. Absenteeism massive and growing European elections is the manifestation of this rejection and the feeling of helplessness. Yet the preservation of the model Social Europe where freedom, solidarity and progress are linked and balance can only come from actions at the continental level. If Europe is still the leading economic power in the world, capable, thanks to the existence of common economic and monetary union among its members to generate enough wealth to be able to conduct his own way, it does The same goes for any of our member states in particular.
font: http://www.iniziativa-europea.eu continues>>
