I think it's one of the first volumes Coconino past and I think also a bit muted. fact is that this couple of French authors gives us a nice noir full of intrigues and conspiracies. Eisenhower
Walter is the son of a German woman sold to an American officer, whose wife could not have children, with the promise of a better life in America. Obviously this does not happen and Walter finds himself thirty-odd years with a sedentary lifestyle, with the loneliness and carried out by the unrewarding job of killing cockroaches. During business hours
Walter happens by chance on a landing something wrong and feels that he should not hear. From here the story takes off from New York's neighborhoods, Hispanic Americans and underworld society.
Technically, the narrative is well structured and based on patterns of 50s pulp classic, full of sharp jokes and rhythmically tight.
master's designs are Late to the maximum, so that the representation of New York is a real postcard.
By the way, but the story itself is original and takes advantage of the usual cliches of film noir. So what to do? Well we must dig deeper and get to find the theme of the cycle that the authors have imposed work. In particular there is a repetition of the places "photographed" by late, especially when opening and closing of the book, as if this story could be repeated indefinitely, simply by changing the protagonist. We can see how the concept of man and cockroach is interchangeable and that the association underworld can be seen as a sort of business-men to kill cockroaches. Ultimately
paranoid like red, single color, which marks the character and affects the city. In Appendix
a kind of reflection of late and with a short story by Legrand that can reveal a lot about the intent of the work.
Later - Legrand
Ammazzascarafaggi
Paperback, 64 p.. two-tone
12.39 €
Coconino Press
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