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Crime

By Irvine Welsh, Massimo Bocchiola (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9788860888471

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Crime

La trama e le recensioni di Crime, romanzo di Irvine Welsh edito da Guanda. Un poliziotto come Ray Lennox non è mai fuori servizio. Nemmeno quando è in vacanza a Miami e dovrebbe pensare solo a rilassarsi e a preparare il suo matrimonio con Trudi. Re ... (read full critics)

Qlibri published on Sat, 27 Nov 2010

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Crime by Irvine Welsh 320pp, Jonathan Cape, £12.99 paperback, £18.99 hardback Ray Lennox, the central character in Crime, made his first appearance in Irvine Welsh's novel Filth (1998), which details the mental breakdown and eventual suicide of an Ed ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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il libro, uno scorrevole hard boiled, ti obbliga a continuare a leggere e non vuoi più fermarti sinché non sei a un terzo dalla fine (lì il libro si sgonfia tristemente, con sdolcinatezze e raccontini sul calcio scozzese). i,racconto si articola con la solita crudezza cui l'autore ci ha abituati, u ... (continue)

il libro, uno scorrevole hard boiled, ti obbliga a continuare a leggere e non vuoi più fermarti sinché non sei a un terzo dalla fine (lì il libro si sgonfia tristemente, con sdolcinatezze e raccontini sul calcio scozzese). i,racconto si articola con la solita crudezza cui l'autore ci ha abituati, uno stile fulminante, veloce, che con pochi tratti sa evidenziare la sciatteria del mondo, su tre casi di pedofilia.
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Welsh tries diligently to muster his fictional devices, such as switching narrative pronouns from “he” to “you” as Ray's bewildered mind is seen from different angles, but the overall effect is one of lumbering improbability. There are frequent flashbacks to scenes that obsess him (a murdered child's body, his own boyhood degradation by a child molester, family quarrels) but duplication dulls rather than sharpens the effect. Contrasting motifs - Trudi's preoccupation with glossy bridal magazines, Ray's with his wobbly libido - are developed without grace or subtlety. The same overwrought style conveys everyone's sensations and thoughts.
The writing strives for extremes, but relentlessly fails to achieve more than the banal. Injustice “sowed a sickening moral relativism into your psyche”, a poster of the murdered child's eyes “blitzed into the psyche of the British public”, Ray's moments of panic “sting his psyche like a bad curry would his gullet”. Elsewhere, a “dark mood creeps through his veins like a poison”; as Trudi gets angry, she “feels the poison flow through her”; and a paedophile is “transformed by a black venom seeping through his veins”. Ray's “piano-wire nerves” are stretched to their limit; 70 pages later “his nerves are now like piano wire”.

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