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Novels # 28 : Bunny Lake Is Missing in New York


If you are among those who during a zapping not resistant to black and white images of a woman in a raincoat anxiety runs through the city, Well, do not miss this book.
Bunny Lake Is Missing , published in the U.S. in 1957, along with The Nanny one of the more famous alias Marryam Modell Evelyn Piper (1908-1994), a writer with a past as a model, a secretary and a great traveler. The model, Piper or if you prefer, here is the author of a psychological thriller with a central Blanche Lake, a beautiful single mother, moved from Providence to New York with Bunny, his three year old girl, to escape the evil tongue of province and to hope for a better future "In New York there are many more possibilities ... and then New York is so big and it's easier do not know their facts. " The city life Blanche forces to leave the child in a nursery but on the very first day, leaving no trace of Bunny. And here begins the ordeal of Blanche that not only must strive to find their daughter but must also fight to prove to everyone from police to the many, some memorable, shady characters in the story (but to us players ...), the 'existence of the child. The narrative tension increases
page after page of casting doubts, anxieties, empathy and dislikes. Blanche, the protagonist, is a great character, well-defined, multifaceted, experienced and combative.
New York City, the City of Hope, Blanche becomes in the eyes of a cynical place, indifferent "The people of New York look out the window. Only they do not care when they notice something strange. " Yet, without forgetting its origin from the small state of Rhode Island, the single mother tries to integrate, to adapt to the rhythms and habits of the city that sometimes seem only hinder in the search for Bunny and dry through dialogues that feed the suspense and the sense of unease that pervades the story will remain in suspense until the end.
This is the first title of the series The Dogs, the new Collection of Crime Polillo Publisher which joins the already proven The Dachshund and every fan of thrillers can only applaud this initiative to reprint small unpublished masterpieces - or almost - in our country.
I opened this review with a joke film and cinema with the close. In 1965 the director Otto Preminger directed the film of the same name Bunny Lake Is Missing based on the novel. The film, which has now become a cult, has very little in common with the novel (and not just as a different ending every time we read on the Net). Apart from the basic idea of \u200b\u200bthe missing child from kindergarten, and that no one believes her mother the similarities end there.
The film is set in London and not New York, there are new characters that are missing in book in the book while others are absent altogether or have completely different roles.
It is precisely under these circumstances, the final becomes different. On various magazine covers film that the director has considered uninteresting and inconsistent and that the final literary why has hired two screenwriters, John and Penelope Mortimer, to rewrite the subject.
understanding that the films of Preminger is a great example of style psycho Hitchcock (transmitted by RaiTre late at night on Christmas Eve of 2010, ed), I find the motivation to change ungenerous about the end of Piper, which is final contextualized in the personal history of Blanche. The protagonist
del libro è una single che lotta per affermarsi ed è anche lo strumento dell’autrice per raccontare attraverso la suspense il ruolo sociale della donna in quegli anni, alle prese con i conflitti familiari, i rapporti affettivi, d’amicizia e di buon(?) vicinato. In questo contesto, il finale scritto dalla Piper è perfetto e coerente, che poi non sia cinematografico o che Otto Preminger non l’abbia considerato tale, diminuendo anche l’impatto “protofemminista” della trama, questo è un altro discorso.
Inoltre l’idea della Piper ha continuato a sedurre il cinema, anche se senza alcun riconoscimento, come avranno avuto modo di notare tutti quelli che hanno visto il film Flightplan - Mistero in Flight (2005) starring Jodie Foster.
Bunny Lake Is Missing , Evelyn Piper, Polillo Editor (The Dogs), 2010

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Novels # 27: Atlas of American


Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882-1952) is one of the most interesting intellectual figures, and never remember too, the Our twentieth century. Journalist, lecturer, novelist and literary critic in 1931 is "self-exile in the United States not to swear allegiance to the Fascist Party and will remain there until 1948.
In those years Americans, who lived mainly in New York, writes this Borgese American Atlas, the cui pubblicazione, prevista per il 1936, viene di fatto impedita dalle autorità a causa delle ferme posizioni contro il regime che l’autore aveva assunto in alcuni articoli scritti per il Corriere della Sera (a riguardo delle vicissitudini editoriali di Borgese si rivela preziosa l’introduzione al volume di Ambra Meda).
Il volume uscirà comunque nel 1936 ma in maniera quasi clandestina e a tiratura ridottissima per l'editore Guanda (forse in meno di 200 copie), che la ristamperà ufficialmente nel 1946 e solo in tempi recenti se ne sono ricostruite le tracce per una nuova pubblicazione curata dalle edizioni Vallecchi.
Borgese arrivato nella City sul Vulcania (nave che abbiamo già incontrato nel libro di Marcella Olschki, ed.) Tells New York look very sharp and refined. After an initial wariness mixed with dismay, the author immerses himself in the city and turns, as a natural, often looking up: "Now there was research dell'ardito new style of fancy esornante, a tinkling, unpublished joy: the last masterpiece of the genre bilding of a big automobile company, truly the jewel of New York, a minaret, a lighthouse, whose pediment, which is a cone of chips, the pinnacle as part of a dart: moody or arabesque fantasy, amazing grace that forces you to smile this sky serious "). So that's the Chrysler Bulding Borges.
But not only skyscrapers, and even of the second bilding neologistica Italianization of the word, living the city. The author moves elegantly from architectural aspects to social analysis up to curious and ironic observations ranging from the role of cinema to the diversity of the wardrobes and windows to marvel at the large stations where you can see and find everything apart from the trains .
Although the chapters of the book said some aspects of New York that seems outdated (Harlem, Brooklyn, Central Park and public parks today are very different) is the ability to capture the essence of so many reality still unchanged and that feeling almost epidermal democracy: "Man Comune. Egli è la vera sostanza di New York e dell’America, il suo senso, il suo futuro. Quest’essere, a primo senso insipido, distingue i due continenti più che la voragine di acqua salata… la cultura ottocentesca , da cui tutti deriviamo, in Europa mirò al Superuomo, in America all’Uomo Qualunque. Nietschze fu l’europeo, Whitman l’americano”.
I paragoni sono tanti e mai scontati, come quello con la città di Venezia, quasi poetico: “Forse New York, navigandosi nella baia, può parere un’enorme Venezia, da un battello del Lido? I marmi rosa di Wall Street, se il sole li fa dolci, rammentano il Palazzo Ducale: a sinistra l’Empire Empire State Building, already in velvety shadow, is a bell tower. " A comparison exquisitely re-discover that Adam Gopnik, surely unaware, this year in its a house in New York . Other explorations
American author (California, Chicago, Washington) enrich the ' "Atlas" Borges but New York is and remains the true star, the source of emotions, the city where absolute "what is new not ashamed to be such ".
American Atlas, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Vallecchi, 2007

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Novels in New York # 26: Dying in Little Italy in New York


Little Italy Dying is one of twelve novels (not all published in Italy) yellow Gaslight Mystery Series by Victoria Thompson created and set in New York at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
E 'at the time, as the name suggests the series, in which the streets were still lit by gas lights and even when one of the four commanders of the Police was Theodore Roosevelt, future president of the USA. Starring
investigations are veteran sergeant Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt, midwife of those brave tumultuous years that, between birth and the other, she becomes involved in killings and disappearances. In Italy
investigations of this unusual duo are published in the historical series of the Yellow Mondadori that Die in Little Italy has come to No 3018 ( Murder in Little Italy, the eighth of the Gaslight Mystery series according to American History), where Sarah is struggling with the death of a young mother married Irish Italian Antonio Ruocco.
The case, like all previous, intricate but this time make it more complex we shall also make the delicate balance between the Italian and Irish communities as well as the inevitable shadow (ahinoi. ..) of the Mafia, specifically the mysterious criminal organization known as the Black Hand.
The author has had a dozen titles of setting nineteenth century, and here combines his experience in the historical novel that has been the fascination for the city of New York, which began when, in recent times, one of his daughters had enrolled in the Tisch School of the Arts .
This love for the city and its past reflected in more than a moment "... he immediately took a hansom," the two-wheeled carriage with the coachman who drove perched on the back, but now had to make several economies to provide for his new family. " The notations vintage and characterization of the Italian characters, thanks to the successful writer of real relationships, enrich a narrative elegant, full of dialogue and almost modest life: "emerged after a while ... 'with a rather crumpled copy of another tabloid newspaper in your hands ... there was also a drawing of a girl with a voluptuous body, sprawled on the bed collapsed, wearing only a short nightdress .
A style that brings to mind the definition of "yellow lady" that sometimes the critics throw at stake when dealing with authors like Agatha Christie (with her "Miss Marple") or Patricia Wentworth (with its " Miss Silver "). The mysteries of
Thompson are disengaged but pleasant reading, a kind of antidote to the explicit descriptions pulp-splatter-gore thriller that characterize many dell'attuale produzione. Ogni tanto tra una minuziosa descrizione autoptica e secchi di sangue ci sta bene anche leggere di una vittima "scompostamente accasciata sul letto" .
Morire a Little Italy , Victoria Thompson, Giallo Mondadori n. 3018, 2010

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Novels # 25: Oh, America


E' sempre interessante leggere della New York di cinquant'anni fa con gli occhi di qualcuno che viene dal nostro Paese. E lo è ancora di più se lo sguardo non è quello del solito emigrante con la valigia di cartone che fa fortuna ma quello di una venticinquenne fiorentina, colta, snob quanto basta, sposa di guerra a un bel maggiore dell'esercito americano.
Oh, America is the story, true, true romance, author, Marcella Olschki (1921-2001) who arrived on the docks of the port of New York on board five hundred and sixty Vulcania along with other "colleagues" will notice that the officer smile by opened married in Florence is a different man, moody and shadowy, transformed by psychoanalysis that are submitted by veterans of the conflict to the point that the relationship between the two perish almost immediately.
Within a few days, the dream city is transformed into a dark place for Marcella: "I looked at the skyscrapers that rents rose in front of me. During the day they were indifferent and impassive, but the night, I saw all those lights go out one by one until the morning they were still a few on, taking terrrificanti aspects, the windows seemed to me grinning niches waiting to swallow the dead. "
Yet this girl, slender in body and soul strong, hides the sad evolution of events to his family and resists impact and misfortunes. Among his luggage was not just clothes, linens and jewelry, but also the culture, interest in jazz, experience and passion conductive RadioFirenze for fashion that will find work as vendeuse from Bergdorf Goodman on 59th : "Among the things that fascinated me in New York was the very high level of sophistication and taste of the big department stores ... nothing was improvised in America, everyone should be in their field, technicians, even those who did fashion and also the slides ... imagination coupled with professional competence gave amazing results. " And so, between small and big problems is captured by the city, slowly seduces her and beef.
Marcella is immersed in New York and sometimes in spite of the lives.
fleeting encounter the likes of a young Mike Bongiorno, a scowling Marlon Brando, an ethereal Greta Garbo. almost casual dating as we meet the old high-school prof at the supermarket. But, you know, we're in New York.
Oh, America is the story a year and a half in New York and the U.S., a year and a half more intense throughout the long life of the Florentine writer and journalist, told with grace and attention and lived with courage, the courage with which Italy In those years he tried to stand up after the war, Italy where everything was difficult and where Marcella, loyal, strong fall of his experiences.
Oh, America , Marcella Olschki, Publisher Sellerio, 1996