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Italian Crime Fiction

Giulana Pieri
Italian Crime Fiction Book PDF

Author : Giulana Pieri
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783164813

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Italian Crime Fiction by Giulana Pieri Pdf

The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The 8 chapters in this volume explore the distinctive features of the Italian tradition from the 1930s to the present, by focusing on a wide range of detective and crime novels by selected Italian writers, some of whom have an established international reputation, such as C. E. Gadda, L. Sciascia and U. Eco, whilst others may be relatively unknown, such as the new generation of crime writers of the Bologna school and Italian women crime writers. Each chapter examines a specific period, movement or group of writers, as well as engaging with broader debates over the contribution crime fiction makes more generally to contemporary Italian and European culture. The editor and contributors of this volume argue strongly in favour of reinstating crime fiction within the canon of Italian modern literature by presenting this once marginalised literary genre as a body of works which, when viewed without the artificial distinction between high and popular literature, shows a remarkable insight into Italy’s postwar history, tracking its societal and political troubles and changes as well as often also engaging with metaphorical and philosophical notions of right or wrong, evil, redemption, and the search of the self.

Crimini

Niccolò Ammaniti
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Author : Niccolò Ammaniti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110074015

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Crimini by Niccolò Ammaniti Pdf

Short stories by best-selling writers of Italian crime fiction, set in Rome, Palermo, and Guadeloupe.

Methods of Murder

Elena M. Past
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Author : Elena M. Past
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442698109

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Methods of Murder by Elena M. Past Pdf

The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda. Many scholars have argued that detective fiction did not exist in Italy until 1929, and that the genre, which was considered largely Anglo-Saxon, was irrelevant on the Italian peninsula. By contrast, Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria’s Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso’s positivist Criminal Man. Through her examinations of these texts, Past demonstrates the links between literary, philosophical, and scientific constructions of the criminal, and provides the basis for an important reconceptualization of Italian crime fiction.

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

Barbara Pezzotti
The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction Book PDF

Author : Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611475524

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The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction by Barbara Pezzotti Pdf

An analysis of the relationship between detective fiction and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country.

The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

Barbara Pezzotti
The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction Book PDF

Author : Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611475531

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The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction by Barbara Pezzotti Pdf

By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of this volume also lies in the fact that the author have not limited her investigation to a series of cities, but rather she has considered the different forms of (social) landscape in which Italian crime novels are set. Through the analysis of the way in which cities, the "urban sprawl," and islands are represented in the serial novels of 11 of the most important contemporary crime writers in Italy of the 1990s, Pezzotti articulates the different ways in which individual authors appropriate the structures and tropes of the genre to reflect the social transformations and dysfunctions of contemporary Italy. In so doing, this volume also makes a case for the genre as an instrument of social critique and analysis of a still elusive Italian national identity, thus bringing further evidence in support of the thesis that in Italy detective fiction has come to play the role of the new "social novel."

Italian Crime Fiction

Giulana Pieri
Italian Crime Fiction Book PDF

Author : Giulana Pieri
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708324332

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Italian Crime Fiction by Giulana Pieri Pdf

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.

The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

Robin Pickering-Iazzi
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Author : Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Crime in literature
ISBN : 9781442629080

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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature by Robin Pickering-Iazzi Pdf

Pickering-Iazzi uses an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present to examine the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens.

Earthly Remains

Donna Leon
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Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802189455

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Earthly Remains by Donna Leon Pdf

A moody mystery set in Italy from the New York Times–bestselling author: “One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” —The Washington Post Guido Brunetti has to deal every day with crimes big and small, suffocating corruption, and a never-ending influx of tourists. But at least he gets to do it in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In this mystery in the bestselling series, the police commissioner’s endurance will truly be tested. During an interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl, Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break. Granted leave from the Questura, he accompanies his wife to a villa on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny’s Natural History. That is until the caretaker of the house, a widowed beekeeper, goes missing following a sudden storm, and Brunetti must set aside his leave of absence and understand what happened to a man who had become a friend. From a Silver Dagger Award–winning author, this is a poignant novel featuring Guido Brunetti, “a superb police detective—calm, deliberate, and insightful” (Library Journal).

The Piranhas

Roberto Saviano
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Author : Roberto Saviano
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374717537

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The Piranhas by Roberto Saviano Pdf

In Gomorrah, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, Roberto Saviano revealed a true, devastating portrait of Naples, Italy under the rule of the Camorra, a crime organization more powerful and violent than the Mafia. In The Piranhas, the international bestselling author returns to his home city with a novel of gang warfare and a young man’s dark desire to rise to the top of Naples’s underworld. Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new paranza, or gang. Together they roam the streets on their motorscooters, learning how to break into the network of small-time hoodlums that controls drug-dealing and petty crime in the city. They learn to cheat and to steal, to shoot semiautomatic pistols and AK-47s. Slowly they begin to wrest control of the neighborhoods from enemy gangs while making alliances with failing old bosses. Nicolas’s strategic brilliance is prodigious, and his cohorts’ rapid rise and envelopment in the ensuing maelstrom of violence and death is riveting and impossible to turn away from. In The Piranhas, Roberto Saviano imagines the lurid glamour of Nicolas’s story with all the vividness and insight that made Gomorrah a worldwide sensation. “With the openhearted rashness that belongs to every true writer, Saviano returns to tell the story of the fierce and grieving heart of Naples.” —Elena Ferrante

Shadows on the Lake

Giovanni Cocco,Amneris Magella
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Author : Giovanni Cocco,Amneris Magella
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698185722

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Shadows on the Lake by Giovanni Cocco,Amneris Magella Pdf

A new atmospheric Italian mystery novel set in Lake Como, introducing the clever and captivating Inspector Stefania Valenti During the construction of a new road to the Swiss border in the mountains above Lake Como, the remains of a young man are unearthed on the powerful Cappelletti family’s property. On the case is Stefania Valenti, forty-five, divorced with a young daughter, and a brilliant, determined police inspector. Her investigation takes her back to World War II and deep into the history of the region, a place that during the war attracted smugglers, deserters, secret agents, and fleeing Jews. Steeped in the beautiful atmosphere of Northern Italy, Valenti’s investigation brings to light a family’s secret, a tragic romance, and reveals a fascinating piece of Italian history.

Painting Death

Tim Parks
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Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628726206

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Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it’s not enough. Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a plan to put on the most exciting art exhibition of the decade, based on a subject close to his heart: killing. All the great slaughters of scripture and classical times will be on show, from Cain and Abel, to Brutus and Caesar. But as Morris meets stiff resistance from the director of Verona’s Castelvecchio museum, everything starts to unravel around him. His children are rebelling, his mistress is asking for more than he wants to give, his wife is increasingly attached to her aging confessor, and, worst of all, it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the ghosts that swirl around him, and the skeletons rattling in every closet. The shame of it is that Morris Arthur Duckworth really did not want to have to kill again. Tim Parks’ acclaimed Duckworth trilogy has been thirty years in the making. In Painting Death, he brings it—and his serial-killer alter ego—to a very fitting—and very funny—end. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Death at La Fenice

Donna Leon
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Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802194138

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Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon Pdf

A conductor succumbs to cyanide at the famed Venice opera house, in the first mystery in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning series. During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role. “One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” —The Washington Post “A brilliant writer . . . an immensely likable police detective who takes every murder to heart.” —The New York Times Book Review

Vendetta

Michael Dibdin
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Author : Michael Dibdin
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307822505

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Vendetta by Michael Dibdin Pdf

In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, the first novel he appears in, Zen himself has been assigned to do some law bending. Officials in a high government ministry want him to finger someone--anyone--for the murder of an eccentric billionaire, whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in Italian politics.But Oscar Burolo's murder would seem to be not just unsolvable but impossible. The magnate was killed on a heavily fortified Sardinian estate, where every room was monitored by video cameras. Those cameras captured Burolo's grisly death, but not the face of his killer. And that same killer, elusive, implacable, and deranged, may now be stalking Zen. Inexorable in its suspense, superbly atmospheric, Vendetta is further proof of Dibdin's mastery of the crime novel.

Involuntary Witness

Gianrico Carofiglio
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Author : Gianrico Carofiglio
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738756

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Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio Pdf

A boy is found murdered in a well near a beach resort. A Senegalese peddler is accused in a hopeless case soaked in small town racism. The Italian judicial process revealed and an affectionate portrait of a deeply humane hero.

And Then You Die

Michael Dibdin
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Author : Michael Dibdin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571248629

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And Then You Die by Michael Dibdin Pdf

'Unputdownable.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'A complete inversion of the standard detective genre.' GUARDIAN AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY Inspector Zen is back, but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in hospital recovering from a car-bomb attack, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions: to sit back and enjoy the classic Italian beach holiday. But when an alarming number of people start dropping dead around him, it seems just a matter of time before the Mafia manages to find their target. 'A top quality thriller.' 5* reader review 'A very entertaining read, sometimes funny sometimes thought provoking and always with a slightly cynical dig at the Italian "establishment"!' 5* reader review 'My favourite book, bar none.' 5* reader review PRAISE FOR MICHAEL DIBDIN AND THE INSPECTOR ZEN SERIES: 'He wrote with real fire.' IAN RANKIN 'A maestro of crime writing.' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the genre's finest stylists . . . And Zen himself is a masterly creation: he is anti-heroic and pragmatic but obstinate, cunning and positively burdened with integrity.' GUARDIAN 'Dibdin tells a rollicking good tale that you want both to read fast, because of its gripping storyline, and to linger over, to savour the evocative descriptions of place and mood.' INDEPENDENT 'One of British crime fiction's most distinguished and distinctive voices.' ANDREW TAYLOR 'Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader.' Ruth Rendell 'Zen is one of the greatest creations of contemporary crime fiction.' OBSERVER 'I love the way these books capture the atmosphere and contradictions of Italy.' 5* reader review 'Aurelio Zen novels are a great treat.' 5* reader review 'There is no better writer than Dibdin. His books are a joy to read.' 5* reader review 'Love these books . . . I am sure you will get hooked too!' 5* reader review