Il post di oggi è dedicato ad una bellissima novità. Infatti Eliott mi ha telefonato e mi ha parlato di una nuova interessante recensione.
Mi direte: già in passato sono uscite interessanti articoli e commenti al romanzo, dove sta la novità? La novità è che questa recensione proviene da Los Angeles! L'autore è Nicholas Furio, un mio fan statunitense.
Voglio dire a Nicholas che sono onoratissima della sua bella recensione. Non mi capita tutti i giorni di ricevere commenti e saluti da Los Angeles. Per me e per Eliott è molto bello ed emozionante sapere che nella capitale mondiale del Cinema, della TV e dell'intrattenimento ci siano persone come Nicholas che leggono ed apprezzano il mio romanzo.
Dopo la prima emozione sono andata a leggere la recensione e qui la seconda bellissima sorpresa. Mi sono infatti resa conto che Nicholas è riuscito veramente ad entrare nello spirito del romanzo, cogliendone gli elementi più interessanti ed innovativi. Per fare un esempio, la riflessione che fa sul rapporto tra le mie indagini ed i filoni investigativi contemporanei è veramente molto acuta, intelligente ed interessante. D'altronde non avevo dubbi che un attento recensore statunitense sapesse cogliere aspetti e sfumature che solitamente sfuggono alla critica italiana, troppo spesso chiusa, autoreferenziale e attenta solo a promuovere i "soliti noti".
Allora che aspettate a leggere l'interessante articolo di Nicholas? Eccolo per voi, nella veste grafica originale e sotto trascritto integralmente:
"The last few semesters of college surprisingly allowed me some time to pursue personal interests, and as a result I decided to finally learn the Italian language. As a result, I was introduced to first time author Eliott Parker who generously offered me his book as a first read in a language that was, and remains in many ways, foreign to me.
Being my first read in Italian, I expected Parker’s Il Colpevole [The Guilty] to be a challenge. And in terms of vocabulary, it was difficult at first. However, the author’s persistent attention to detail and dialogue (particularly Penelope’s frequent inner dialogue) helped make clear many aspects of the plot.
Living in the U.S., we are besieged by television shows depicting detectives, cops and the like taking on impossibly unrealistic cases, yet using real world techniques to solve them. This worked for television shows in the 90’s because the combination of extreme possibility and the advent of DNA profiling were exciting. The first decade of the new Millennium has nearly ended, and these shows have frankly become tired, dime a dozen programs. Shows like CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) have done nothing to advance the crime genre. The genre has not evolved and has sadly spiraled into an endless list of mediocrity, giving us the same brand of unrealistic crime with uninteresting personalities.
With Il Colpevole, the author gives us a break from all this. Although clearly inspired by mystery and crime titles of the past, Penelope Guzman is her own person. A female private detective who, breaking from tradition, finds herself working without a male counterpart in an unnamed city.
Parker takes time to show us Penelope’s personality, giving us her inner dialogue when it’s most necessary. In Penelope we have a fierce proponent of justice who works alone, unabashedly smokes, and uses more than just her good looks to sway colleagues into helping her.
We are also given a character that has fashion sense, doesn’t take her work seriously to the brink of killing herself, and enjoys driving her Maggiolone with the top down to let the wind blow through her hair. Penelope is refreshingly simple. She’s as straight forward in her investigative work as she is in her leisure tastes, and balances both in an admittedly different way than I am used to.
As consumers we have been conditioned to demand that our heros and heroines astound and amaze us, and occasionally provoke some sympathy on our part. Penelope never does this for us, and she doesn’t need to. Penelope is able to get her job done just as well as any detective on CSI or its spin offs, and she still finds time to relax and enjoy herself. It’s here that the author’s talent reveals itself, in Penelope’s unpretentious, straight forward manner of conducting business, something that is sorely lacking from modern crime genre.
I was pleased to find a story unlike much of what we see today in this genre. Too often we are iven the aforementioned absurd plots with increasingly far-fetched characters. Parker caught me off guard at the end of each chapter, a surprising feat. You would think we had exhausted every possible cliff hanger with the plethora of fare in this genre, but the author is able to come up with some interesting and modern ideas that kept me quite interested during the read.
Should Parker choose to create a series for Penelope, her past demons would surely play an increasingly larger role in future novels, only serving to make the subsequent Penelope Guzman giallo an even better read."
Nicholas Furio
Un grande "GRAZIE" a Nicholas. Sono le recensioni come la sua che danno a me e ad Eliott la forza ed il coraggio per proseguire nella nostra evventura.
A presto,
Penelope
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