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Procedura
"Published to unanimous acclaim in Europe and winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize for fiction, Procedura introduces a writer of world-class fiction." "At the end of a none too brilliant career, a judge, sent to Sardinia from the mainland, lives alone in a small town, broken relationships and partings left behind him. When a colleague suddenly dies, he is entrusted with the investigation and soon finds himself entwined in the most intimate knowledge of judge Valerio Garau's life - from his rich, orphaned childhood with its hints of scandal to the red-and-blue capsule with its grain of cyanide that one morning caused him to fall backward among the cafe tables while joking with his mi...
Sottotiro
Book reviews previously published in the column Sottotio of the monthly Millelibri from 1988 and 1995.
Il fantasma e il seduttore
Un esordio folgorante – nel 1962, a trent’anni –, quello di Salvatore Mannuzzu, e poi un lungo «esilio» dalla narrativa, dal quale lo scrittore sardo esce con un romanzo che di nuovo e con più clamore lo riporta sotto i riflettori del pubblico e della critica, tanto da diventare un vero e proprio «caso letterario». Da allora – e siamo al 1988, l’anno di Procedura – i romanzi e i racconti si succedono, rivelando i contorni di quella che si definisce sempre più come la figura di uno dei più solidi narratori contemporanei. E se è il giallo il genere a cui si tende ad accostare la scrittura di Mannuzzu, è bene precisare che si tratta di una «parentela» assai lontana, e mes...
Alice
Alice è il nome di un brigantino francese misteriosamente naufragato, nel 1909, presso la foce del Columbia River, Oceano Pacifico: Lula ne tiene chissà perché una fotografia sul tavolo. Ma Alice è anche la password che custodisce il diario di Lula, dentro un computer. Piero, che non ama piú Lula e sta per lasciarla, viola in un momento d'ozio quel diario. E ci trova quel che mai avrebbe voluto leggere. Cosí l'enigma del veliero naufragato da un secolo s'intreccia all'irrimediabile enigma del diario, quasi si tratti della stessa storia. Intanto la vita passa e si perde, anche in modi terribili; resta il rimorso di non averla capita. «Mannuzzu ci dà una storia avvincente, splendidamente narrata, la cui trama segreta, enigma solo in parte decifrato, condiziona con influssi misteriosi quella esplicita, e continua a sollecitare la coscienza morale del lettore». Cesare Segre
Sardinia on Screen
This volume explores how Sardinians and Sardinia have been portrayed in Italian cinema from the beginning of the 20th century until now, starting from the examination of Sardinian tropes in a wide range of texts – travel writing, fictional sources, essays and academic works. The purpose is to shed light on the cultural construction of the Sardinian character and to reveal the ideology that is behind this process. Hence the volume challenges topics such as the dynamics between verbal and visual imagery, and the intertwining between discourse, images and audience. It addresses the following questions: how was the Sardinian character translated from texts into films? Which strategies were developed to define Sardinian images on screen? For whom were these images intended? Which ideology lies behind the images? Focusing on cultural images within film and literature, this volume is of interest to those working in imagology, comparative, cultural and Italian studies.
The Law and Comedy
Despite their inherent seriousness, the law and those who practice it, be it lawyers, judges, politicians, or bureaucrats, are amongst the most popular objects of comedy and humour. Sometimes even the mention of the law, or the mere use of legal vocabulary, can trigger laughter. This is deeply counterintuitive, but true across cultures and historical eras: while the law is there to prevent and remedy injustice, it often ends up becoming the butt of comedy. But laughter and comedy, too, are also infused with seriousness: as universal social phenomena, they are extremely complex objects of study. This book maps out the many intersections of the law and laughter, from classical Greece to the present day. Taking on well-known classical and modern works of literature and visual culture, from Aristophanes to Laurel and Hardy and from Nietzsche to Totò and Fernandel, laughter and comedy bring law back to the complexity of human soul and the unpredictability of life.
The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
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.
