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Novels # 31: From the Planet of Brooklyn in New York Control


From Brooklyn to Planet Control ( The Identity Plunderers ) is an unusual novel that mixes science fiction to detective novels about two in one, with the literary challenge to unite all in a plausible way.
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Urania 980 series is the first work of Isidore Haiblum , written in 1984, the year of the first Terminator , a coincidence that, read the book, you may also define non-random.
Haiblum shows a good familiarity in the management of science fiction themes such as planets ruled by humanoids, from human brain extract ("nulls"), cyborg, a man and a she escaped from a prison planet and everything else belongs to the tradition of this series of Mondadori.
The land part of the story, where the Ross Block reporter investigating a murder, it is more convincing, especially in New York and rhythm elements.
journalist living and working nella Manhattan degli anni ‘80, quando New York si stava pian piano rifacendo il look dopo la parentesi "sporca, cattiva e pericolosa" dei '70: “La baciò sul naso, si alzò, andò alla finestra. Quattro piani più sotto c’erano West Broadway e Soho, il quartiere degli artisti di Manhattan Bassa. Bar ben messi, ristoranti non ordinari, qualche boutique chic e molti portici che si facevano concorrenza per attirare l’attenzione” .
E anche Brooklyn, il luogo d’origine del protagonista, dove torna per indagare dopo molti anni, mostra il cambiamento in corso: “La Brooklyn che lui conosceva non c’era più. Niente casamenti anneriti che si affollavano on sidewalks. No clothes hanging to dry in the courtyards. Instead, there were everywhere, some tall buildings, yellow brick, much like the boxes: buildings of apartments for lower middle class. And the flyover was gone. "
The chapters alternate between setting strict galactic and subway, another with a good amount of action that keeps up the pace of the story. The writer tries to unsettle the reader with sudden gear shifts between dream, reality, memory loss and finds up to a final, not without some difficulty and repeated narrative twists, reconnect everything.
From the Planet of Brooklyn control remains an interesting experiment, a sort of fantapulpdetective memorable you who have not read with curiosity.
From Brooklyn to Planet Control , Mondadori Urania No 980, 1984

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Novels # 30: Three Rooms in Manhattan in New York


some previous post I mentioned that some authors would have appeared several times in the blog with their works, New York.
A bit for luck, a bit of respect for one of my favorite writers, the first to give an encore is the same as post # 1 : Georges Simenon (1903-1989).
Three Rooms in Manhattan is one of the novels without Maigret Simenon that in the postwar years, like many European intellectuals, moved to the United States where he met Denyse Ouimet, his second wife. And it is precisely the theme of love novel, with its mysteries sometimes more complicated investigations by Commissioner French.
The protagonists, Francois and Kay, no longer young, no more carefree, seductive but not beautiful, cross their loneliness through the streets of Manhattan and deepen their knowledge of emotional outbursts, reluctance and jealousy, the song juke box, and small denominations rough tenderness.
to read this book you learn just one thing that every visitor to New York should know that to fully enjoy this city you must walk, and a lot: "And there they were again on the street was where the ultimately felt at home. Outside, in fact, changed mood, found themselves automatically miraculous lightness that they had discovered by chance ".
is true that the iconography of the city in motion often refers to images of taxi and subway, but the emotions, thoughts, discovery the great city and of themselves is step by step, literally and tirelessly, as do the two lovers of the novel, that stops are a hotel room, the house where she lives and the one where he lives (the three rooms of the title).
Passion attracts them and repels them, the bite of the past, of old lovers, friends, cynical, existential test more difficult designed to gather around the protagonists suffer, cry, react (not always well) that causes confusion to love.
But the streets of New York know how to be comforting: "I took a taxi. They walked on. As if that was their fate, as if they knew or could not stop." How will Simenon walked to New York, with his pipe, his eyes attentive to people, their faces, their gestures, but also skyscrapers and bridges: "He crossed the Greenwich Village towards the dock and bridge Brooklyn, and was the first time you walk on the giant iron bridge. "
How will it end this crazy love ? Well I certainly do not have to be to reveal it, but reading a novel by Simenon in love, the perfect setting aside the gears of the clockwork plots of his yellow is an exciting and surprising, which reveals the passionate side of a master of intrigue. And all this takes place in New York is certainly not a case.
Three Rooms in Manhattan , Georges Simenon, Adelphi, 1998

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Novels # 29: New Thing in New York


between jazz and New York is a very strong bond and the writers know that. In the novels of New York setting somebody mentions a song, who is a local, who is a musical, a jazz musician who does one of the protagonists, who puts jazz in its title, Who makes a sort of background for the story, who puts in almost everything that I mentioned.
But there are those who, as in the case of Wu Ming 1 alias Roberto Bui (Wu Ming is a collective of writers, if you want to learn more click here ), is jazz not only the backbone of the story but also the narrative style.
New Thing tells the most critical period for the black culture, those late 60's that saw the birth of the Black Panther movement and the explosion of a revolutionary jazz, free jazz, the "new thing" out of any fee , played in the local worst, and best of the city.
The book offers the reader as a jam session narrative, which revolves around the case of a serial killer known as Son of the Whiteman who chooses his victims among the black musicians. The narrative proceeds by excerpts of interviews with some "veterans" and recorded by journalist Sonia Langman (disappeared at the time of the crimes): "As important as the arrival of Ornette (Coleman, ed) in New York was the Revolution ' October. Mica that in Russia, eh. The one in the Cellar Café on 96th street west side. October 64. The October Revolution in Jazz, a six-day festival organized by Bill Dixon ... the maximum capacity was about sixty people, but in the evening was filled with a quail egg in an ostrich chick. "
And then the imaginary newspaper articles Brooklyn, flashbacks, and turns to local legendary (Cellar Café, Slugs, Birdland, Village Vanguard ...) and many musicians, and true blacks, with their lives as their legendary dead .
Those of the Black Power and free jazz have been years of suffering and hope for the black community: "In our music (to speak is the character of Rowdy Dow, ed) grew hungry. When you arrive in New York Pharaoh (Sanders, ed) slept in the subway. Rashid Ali slept in parks and ended when the soldiers will come Phialdelphia. "
Recently, the theatrical organization operating margin has staged a free adaptation the book with the show "Homicide, Jazz & Black Power" , an experimental performance that has reignited the focus on a text whose originality we find each reading, maybe you made our turn to jump, in chunks, depending on of his memories as a reader, a bit like when there is the sudden urge to listen to certain songs, but only some, a few jazz albums that we loved.
New Thing , Wu Ming 1, Einaudi (Stile Libero), 2004

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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