Alla fine di un giorno noioso (Noir mediterraneo) (Italian Edition)

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Don't have a Kindle? Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 1 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. Si uno se sacude la moralina, puede pasar un excelente rato leyendo este libro. Personalmente no lo encuentro a la altura de un Chandler o un Simenon, pero lo cierto es que hay diferencias sustanciales de fondo y forma.

En el camino da rien Si uno se sacude la moralina, puede pasar un excelente rato leyendo este libro. No digamos ya encontrarnos cara a cara con el mal. El mal, en el caso de Carlotto, no suele ser gratuito. Nero sbiadito Mi sono accorto di leggere Carlotto mosso da pregiudizio.

Oramai posso tranquillamente confessarlo a me stesso: Di lui, come autore, fino a qualche mese fa sapevo poco, non me ne ero mai interessato. Eppure, ogni sua pagina letta sino ad ora mi ha sempre lasciato una sensazione di artificioso, una diffidenza che non mi spiego ma che esiste, a inibire Nero sbiadito Mi sono accorto di leggere Carlotto mosso da pregiudizio.

Eppure, ogni sua pagina letta sino ad ora mi ha sempre lasciato una sensazione di artificioso, una diffidenza che non mi spiego ma che esiste, a inibire la fiducia nel leggere le sue storie. Non mi fido, insomma. Tratto da questo romanzo avevo visto il film anni fa, e mi era piaciuto, quindi sapevo grossomodo cosa aspettarmi anche se non ricordavo i dettagli.

This Italian noir novel is about as hard-boiled as they come. The narrator is one of the most despicable characters I've ever come across in literature: If you can look past his repugnant behavior including rampant misogyny , the book is a great read, fast-paced, thrilling. I read it in Italian and would recommend it as a good choice to those learning the language, as it's short, entertaining, and the languag This Italian noir novel is about as hard-boiled as they come.

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I read it in Italian and would recommend it as a good choice to those learning the language, as it's short, entertaining, and the language is for the most part quite easy to understand. Carlotto, al solito, non esita, con crudezza e realismo, a mostrare i suoi personaggi come capaci di ogni nefandezza, ma ritorna qui un suo tema di fondo: Le molle che lo spingono sono le guide della sua esistenza: Gigi Vianello, protagonista di Mi fido di te , era privo di scrupoli e amorale quanto Giorgio Pellegrini, ma vi era, nelle sue avventure, una vena grottesca e assurda che strappava qualche sogghigno, e nel finale una sorta di "castigo divino" che riusciva a rendere la sua figura quasi patetica e persino "simpatica".

May 16, Jan rated it liked it. A very grim view of Italian life and criminality. The lead character seems utterly lacking in any kind of conscience or morals and whilst perhaps you are supposed to feel sorry that he was unable to finally break away from his past, his enjoyment of violence and readiness to kill seemed a little too easy and it was hard to believe he could ever have stuck to the clean life.

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I will try another by this author but not sure "Italian Noir" is really my thing. Noir da leggere tutto d'un fiato. Parte finale consumata in poche pagine Jun 16, ChadBroChill rated it really liked it. At times I found it hard to relate to the main character. Attraverso Pellegrini, Carlotto rappresenta l'ipocrisia di una certa borghesia italiana: La prima persona ci costringe a seguire la strategia di Pellegrini, logica e razionale a fin di male.

Calvino Ma come, obietta il signor Simplicio, un rivoluzionario convinto non avrebbe mai fatto schifezze e tradito il tradibile. Uno di quei casi in cui le opinioni di Beccaria sono messe esageratamente alla prova. Aug 01, Rob Kitchin rated it really liked it. Pellegrini is a well formed character who is frighteningly believable, his thoughts and actions seemingly rationale and logical. He uses intimidation, manipulation and violence in a pre-meditated, calculated way to exert his will, yet he also understands his place in the wider criminal system and how to respect and work that system.

Some of his actions are stomach churning and it is difficult to warm to the main character, but that is clearly the point. Criminals like Pellegrini are repulsive and, for many people, unfathomable, and Carlotto provides a window into their world. The book is written in a lucid, engaging, economic prose that keeps the pages turning, and the story is well structured and plotted, with just the right amount of backstory to give credibility. The book is short at pages; and for me slightly too short.

Overall, well written and paced novel, that's a rewarding and disturbing read. Jun 23, Ramsey rated it really liked it Shelves: I'm upgrading this book to four stars. Still thinking about it a year after reading it. A bleak and nasty dose of Mediterranean noir. I think Carlotto may be making some broader statements about the trajectory of modern Italy - left-wing idealism that devolved first into violence of its own making, then general criminality and corruption, overlaid with a justice system that forces individuals who would come clean into a labyrinth marked by further depravity at each twist and turn.

My only problem I'm upgrading this book to four stars. My only problem with the novel is that Pellegrini, the narrator, is so clearly a psychopath that it is hard to view his blood spattered path to rehabilitation as anything more than the product of his personality disorder. Of course, Carlotto may be highlighting a dark irony - among people with a criminal past, only a psychopath can successfully emerge from the labyrinth and find "respectability" in society. In any event, a compelling read.

Apr 09, Lyle Appleyard rated it liked it Shelves: I received a copy of this book through the Goodreads Firstreads Giveaway. This was my first time reading this author. I was not sure what to expect. Thre wasn't much for character development. The main character was bad. Everyone who had dealings with was bad. Except maybe the woman he was going to marry, but he killed her anyway and most of the other people he dealt with. This novel was entirely an action driven story. The actions happen without much reason being given. The main char I received a copy of this book through the Goodreads Firstreads Giveaway.

The main character does not have any inner turmoil. He knows always what he needs to do.

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The main character goes from one crime to another looking out for number one and not trusting anyone. E a godersi i soldi. Gostei muito desse livro, ele nos mostra o outro lado Imagine London Boulevard by Ken Bruen but darker still, and with an even less sympathetic protagonist. In Pellegrini's world, the innocent are chewed up and spit out. Only the bad, on both sides of the law, prevail. Remorse and conscience are in short supply.

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The landscape is bleak and the outlook thoroughly jaundiced. In other words, this is excellent noir. Terrifying in the economic and matter of fact way that the intense violence is presented. This spare yet vicious narrative style is the most striking literary mannerism that Carlotto uses to weave a straight forward but engrossing tale of a man capable of anything in a quest for a departure from violence and a life fatefully shaped by crime.

Per lettori dallo stomaco foderato di piombo. Carlotto is the best new writer I've discovered in years. Think raymond chandler but with a distinctly Italian flavor. Filemazio rated it it was amazing Jan 25, Muriel Zaccuri rated it it was amazing Jan 05, Sheila rated it it was amazing Dec 22, Cosimo rated it it was amazing Oct 04, Guido rated it it was amazing Apr 08, Danielle rated it it was amazing Jun 26, Francesca Carraturo rated it it was amazing Mar 13, Creosoto rated it it was amazing Sep 20, Ania Marci rated it it was amazing Aug 27, Cassie rated it it was amazing Aug 03, Stacie Shipman rated it it was amazing May 01,