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Carboni, Valdina and cultural mafia

There are two types of mafia. There is a mafia crime, shooting, killing, threatening, calling for protection money and burn the metal shop, which controls drug trafficking and prostitution, which operates the landfill and waste disposal. And then there is the Mafia culture, what the fishmonger gets the better part of swordfish (without paying ...), the one that jumps the queue at the post because he knows someone behind the counter, what for a medical examination at the hospital no Call Center, but the primary, or maybe even just a nurse.
The central difference between these two modes lies in the perception of being mafia of those who embodies the model. If those who commit crimes in the former case it is conscious (and often, unfortunately, even pride) to act illegally, in the second case there is however no qualms whatsoever, everyone simply tries to make as widely as possible its network power, small or large, feeding, sometimes without realizing it, a cultural system of patronage.

Summer of 2009. And 'the last week of August to Valdina, a State of the Tyrrhenian province of Messina, when the council received by the Culture of Sicily extraordinary funds to be allocated € 25,000 organization of shows.
E'un'occasione extraordinary for a small town, with the same figure that has prepared the entire program of events throughout the summer. Of course there is a problem, a big problem, and of timing: how to write the principle we are now at the end of the month of August, the holidays are already over for many and Valdina is slowly emptying the last holidaymakers. How
also using this unexpected good fortune?
They're discussed in a few days among the members of the administration. The proposals are numerous, such as who is suggested to allocate funding to the organization of a great autumn festival, who proposes to take in Serbian € 25,000 for the New Year's Eve in a show of streets to December 31, Going on sensational engagement of some well-known singer. At the end of the check
Nino Di Stefano, (strong man of the town Tyrrhenian, former first citizen of Valdina for two administrations and now deputy mayor of his ex-deputy mayor, Pierluigi Di Stefano), which requires the choice of Luca Carboni. € 25 000 Yet they seem a little too much, not to mention that the concert should take place on a Friday in late September, in a location different from that chosen for the summer shows and with very little time to organize media coverage of the event. Yet Nino Di Stefano did not listen to reason, he decided to sing on stage will be Valdina Luca Carboni, after all the funding it has provided him and does not accept interference in the decision.
surely amaze the determination of Di Stefano, to the point that some evil may perhaps think that the deputy mayor has worked a few personal return from the assignment of Luca Carboni ... but they are evil, the truth is that Nino Di Stefano is a huge fan of Luke so in love with the melodies of singer / songwriter from Emilia € 25,000 grant of engagement, move heaven and earth, moving boxes and equipment, find a date in an absurd night midweek in late September, just to hear him play.

Peccato che ad ascoltare Carboni qualche settimana più tardi arrivino a malapena 100 persone, che peraltro Carboni nemmeno lo vedranno dal momento che la pioggia causerà lo spostamento dell’esibizione al giorno seguente. Siamo ancora sicuri di aver speso nella maniera più corretta quei 25.000 euro, dottor Di Stefano?

Questa è una piccola storia, un frammento di vita politica quotidiana nella provincia di Messina, uno scorcio minuscolo che mostra come funzionano le amministrazioni comunali in Sicilia.
Discutendo con alcuni amici più volte mi è stato ripetuto che si trattava di un fatto senza interesse, qualcosa che tutti conoscono “perché si sa come vanno queste cose ed allora perché go against people who one day can give you a hand. " Well here is the problem, a problem that brings us back to the opening words, the Mafia culture, such a system in which the unjust, the illegal, it becomes natural.
Yet I still believe in the democratic nature of the country where I live, a nature that allows me the privilege to enjoy the freedom of thought, freedom of speech and expression, rights that allow me, under my responsibility, to launch a look on the things that happen around me, to give an opinion, an opinion with respect to the facts that I find most interesting, without fear of political reprisals, social or even physical, simply actually showing the deep love that binds me to my land by telling what happens there. And 'this is why I always refused the voices of those who, over time, advised me to submit my short stories by omitting the names, surnames, geographical and temporal circumstances. To these friends I always answered that it is precisely in the names in surnames, geographical and temporal circumstances in which we dig the groove between journalism and fiction, between information and fiction.
I never accepted this compromise, because I find it absurd to imagine having to be afraid to express a point of view, an idea, my vision of things.
What then, however, as we all know, that both the mafia does not exist ....

Christmas Pagan Origins

The rules of the anthill - Save Barone (Ed. Todaro 2010) The

Assistere a un suicidio non è cosa da tutti giorni, ancora meno se prima di gettarsi sotto la metropolitana, ti capita di incrociare lo sguardo della vittima. È questo l’incipit di Le regole del formicaio, debutto di Salvo Barone (alla sua seconda prova) con Todaro Edizioni. Il protagonista è Efisio Sorigu, commissario di provincia trasferito a Milano, che una mattina come tante altre si trova involontariamente coinvolto nel suicidio di a man, and though normally the case as soon as they are stored, that look does not convince the officer that pushed to seek the reasons for the neutral gesture. Soon the investigation will include a suicide and some other unusual bank robberies that seem to somehow follow a specific thread of Ariadne, prompting the commissioner to go to the bottom of the story.

The rules of the anthill is a novel, surprising, unusual in its kind. First of all because, despite the structure of a thriller, with characters and characters typical of the genre, does not have the key of yellow that is the mystery. The investigation by the Commissioner Sorigu, in fact, it takes a precise direction and not is not difficult to guess what will, at the same time it departs from the classic yellow for an almost documentary approach that the author seems more interested in the outline of the story rather than the facts themselves. Barone presents us with a very current Italian society, where politics and bad business mix and where, in the electoral campaign, the media (and thus popular opinion) is heavily influenced by a clear strategy. The Baron of Milan is a bustling metropolis, almost drifting, which at times recalls the Chicago of the '30s in the hands of organized crime, and with his team Sorigu "vivacchiano" trying to limit the damage. A vision the author sums up in a bitter end when the disillusionment is the dominant element.

Despite a fairly solid structure and story, the author's style is often too cumbersome, reading you the feeling of its excessive presence should be at the expense of the characters, the left margin. The same Sorigu is a man with whom you find it difficult to identify with, just does not know much about his past, his life is the most disorderly imaginable (and therefore also not very original, given the various commissioners narrated by the authors Italian ). The author tells too much, too often cut off talks with ideas that break the rhythm, and, paradoxically, is better the character of the inspector Ballabio, an almost alter ego of the Commissioner, much more direct and simple and just for trying affection and sympathy. Underdeveloped, in addition, the female characters, especially Charlie, the companion of the Commissioner, held the edge throughout the book as if it were only a noise effect.

Ultimately, it should be acknowledged in Barone that he took an interesting (but depressing) picture of Italy today and have documented thoroughly admirable to give a contemporary story, but when part of a documentary novel overwhelms the narrative, it is inevitable that the whole structure of the book are affected, especially when it comes to a detective story in which pathos and rhythm should be an integral and indispensable elements of the story.

Article by Marc Caputo Gagliani

details of the book

• Price € 16.00
• Publisher Todaro
• Necklace Footprints
• Release Date 01/10/2010 Pages 250
• Italian Language
• EAN 9788886981897