Crime and capitalism: Giorgio Scerbanenco’s and Massimo Carlotto’s domestication of the American hard-boiled crime fiction

Barbara Pezzotti

doi:10.3172/CLU.32.2.51

Crime and capitalism: Giorgio Scerbanenco’s and Massimo Carlotto’s domestication of the American hard-boiled crime fiction

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Abstract

The novels of Giorgio Scerbanenco and Massimo Carlotto represent the most selfconscious meditations about the relationship between capitalism and criminality within Italian crime fiction. In the 1960s Scerbanenco pointed at the capitalistic structure of organized crime, whereas in the 1990s Carlotto showed how capitalism had assumed the typical features of the mafia.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	51-61
Number of pages	11
Journal	Clues: a journal of detection
Volume	32
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3172/CLU.32.2.51
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Crime fiction
hard-boiled
scerbanenco
carlotto

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