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Italian Noir |
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| 08/12/2011 |
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Four diverse Italian authors prove that Italian literature offers an absolutely variegated landscape.
Andrea Genio Pinketts presented his latest, Depilando Pilar, set in Milan, a city plagued by venereal warts in which taxi drivers become protagonists of bizarre murders. A book on skin and hair (the lows and highs, respectively), in which the main character is the renowned Lazzaro Santandrea. A book written by hand, at a table in a bar, far from the world of Federico Tavola, a university physics professor whose debut novel, Che bella vita, is set in an environment well known to the writer – pharmaceutical companies and scientific research.
On another end of the spectrum there are Alfredo Colitto and Marcello Simoni, authors of, respectively, Il libro dell’angelo and Il mercante di libri maledetti. Popular, adventure novels, in which history is a backdrop to the thrillers at their core. Best-selling novels, set in periods we’re used to considering the Dark Ages, actually centuries in which the foundations were being laid for the future golden ages of art and thought, among books on myths and evocations of angels. Two authors of today who write about a past world.
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