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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.
List of contents
Contents:
Epigraphs
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Giallo and the City
1 Milan, the city of crime
Piero Colaprico and Pietro Valpreda's 'Dynamic' Milan
Andrea G. Pinketts' Grotesque Milan
Sandrone Dazieri and a Manichean Image of the City
2 Turin, between History and News
Bruno Ventavoli and the 'Savoy Kasbah'
Piero Soria and the Renewal of Turin's Pride
3 Naples, the sulphurous city
Siviero's Naples as the Dystopian City of the Future
4 Palermo, beauty and the Mafia
Piazzese and a Schizophrenic Palermo
Part II: Giallo and urban sprawl
5 Bologna and the Via Emilia
Carlo Lucarelli and a Dilating Bologna
6 Italy's North-east, the Corroded Engine of Italy
Massimo Carlotto and the Alligator series
Part III: Giallo and the Island
7 Sicily between Old and New
Andrea Camilleri and Vigàta, the Imaginary 'Island'
8 Sardinia, the Motherland
Marcello Fois and his Contemporary Trilogy
Conclusion
Part IV: Interviews
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
By Barbara Pezzotti
Summary
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.
