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Showing posts with label andrea camilleri. Show all posts
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November 10, 2010

Accountant Patò vanishes in 1890...

But now, in 2010, 120 years later, he is back
as...
'na stampa e 'na figura !

LA SCOMPARSA DI PATÒ [The Vanishing of Patò]
Challenging the allegations of L'Araldo di
Montelusa, edition of Monday 28 April 1890
- one of the precious documents 'unearthed'
by Andrea Camilleri and that constitute the
basis on which the Sicilian writer has been
able to build the imaginary and strange
adventure as well as the possible death of

Mr Pato - a recent survey, carried out in close collaboration between MM Camilleri, Mortelliti
and Nichetti,
gives us back the same man, priciso 'ntifico, in good shape and ready for a new
adventure...
the same adventure, in fact, brought by a movie.


Director of the Trinacria bank of Vigàta and notable of the town, Mr. Antonio Pato usually plays the role of Judas
in the 'Passion of Christ' for the traditional Venerdì Santo performance and each year,
as he commits suicide,
Judas disappears from the scene through a trapdoor disguised under his feet.

But in the year 1890, the accountant disappears once and for all
.
Is Patò dead or is he hiding ?

Murì Patò o s’ammucciò ?
The investigation is set in motion in Vigàta, revealing the usual rivalry between the Reali Carabinieri and the
Pubblica Sicurezza, punctuated by the provincial and local newspaper articles and some anonymous and spicy
commentaries that bloom on the walls of the city.
Rumors and gossip explode, heralds of a scandal that the authorities will suffocate... at the expense of truth.


[Trailer found on iVid.it]

This is the first film adaptation of a historical novel by Camilleri, partly because his detective
series, animated by his Inspector Montalbano is far more popular, at least in Italy, and has
already inspired a television series, rather poor in my opinion and I'm afraid it would require
a bigger talent to bring to the screen a historical novel by Camilleri, without betraying the
essence of his creation.
We can always wait until the movie comes out, no hurry.
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LA SCOMPARSA DI PATÒ, Italy, 2010
Director: Rocco Mortelliti
Screenplay: Andrea Camilleri, Rocco Mortelliti, Maurizio Nichetti

Cast: Nino Frassica, Maurizio Casagrande, Neri Marcorè [Patò], Alessandra Mortelliti

Production: 13 Dicembre S.r.l.

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Andrea Camilleri [wiki]
- Best of Sicily [a previous PPG post]
- From Montelusa to Vigàta [Sicily tour]
-
The Sage of Sicily,


In a recent interview, the writer points out, with his usual irony, the similarities between
the pressures exerted on the police in his novel, with those we still can find today in the late
Berlusconi's 'affairs'.

Citing Tomasi di Lampedusa in Il Gattopardo, Camilleri notes that even today, in Italy,
everything changes in such a way that nothing changes.

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October 15, 2009

Yay ! Camilleri, "La Rizzagliata"...

La vicenda ruota attorno alla redazione della RAI siciliana.
Il suo direttore, Michele Caruso, tralascia di dare la notizia dell’avviso
di garanzia a Manlio Caputo, figlio del leader della sinistra siciliana,
accusato dell’omicidio della sua fidanzata, Amalia Sacerdote, anche
lei un cognome importante perché suo padre è il segretario generale
dell’Assemblea Regionale Siciliana.

La ragazza è stata trovata morta
a casa sua con il cranio fracassato
da un pesante portacenere e quel
cadavere crea non pochi problemi
per le rivalità politiche dei genitori
dei due giovani e per le evidenti
connessioni con i poteri economico,
giudiziario, giornalistico e politico dell’isola - una
rete solida quanto
un rizzaglio.
Publisher: Sellerio (La memoria, 795)
Pub date:
Oct, 2009


La Rizzagliata, oggi in libreria, ha una storia curiosa : arriva in Italia, nell’inconfondibile
impasto linguistico, un anno dopo l’uscita in Spagna.
Il primo problema è già nel titolo, che contiene un riferimento al «rizzaglio», una rete
in cui restano impigliati «i pesci cchiù stùpiti o i cchiù lenti, pirchì quelli cchiù sperti,
videnno le reti calare, si scansano ‘n tempo».
Come renderlo in spagnolo ?
L’editore Rba, e il traduttore Juan Carlos Gentile Vitale, hanno aggirato l’ostacolo,
titolando con un meno immaginifico "La muerte de Amalia Sacerdote".

In recent years the success of Andrea Camilleri has crossed the oceans, raising it to the world's most
beloved Italian writer.
The shelves are now filled with hundreds of editions in all major languages, but how
to make effective such an original style, so highly seasoned with Sicilian spices ?
Working on a Camilleri's
novel means accepting a fascinating but dangerous challenge.
Some of the best translators have taken up
this challenge.


"They say I'm a writer easy to understand, even if they have trouble understanding how I write..."
[Andrea Camilleri].

In generale, è il modo di trasporre il «
Vigatese» che crea difficoltà, come ben sanno
i traduttori che giorni fa hanno confessato i loro tormenti nel convegno* «La sfida di

Camilleri
» che si è tenuto a Milano, promosso dalla Fondazione Mondadori.


* "La Sfida di Camilleri" > "Come si traduce il Vigatese"
Convegno internazionale dedicato a uno degli autori italiani più tradotti. Mauro Novelli ha animato il confronto
tra alcuni traduttori dello scrittore siciliano, come Serge Quadruppani [France], Moshe Kahn [Germany],
Barbro Andersson
[Swedish] e Stephen Sartarelli [USA].

(8 ottobre, Salone d’Onore della Triennale di Milano, viale Alemagna, 6)

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AND
here is the wise man's opinion on what he calls the "Berlusconi anomaly"
(sorry, it's in Italian)...

[by 884C25]

August 19, 2009

Best of Sicily : Andrea Camilleri

About 10 million copies of his novels have been sold to date,
and are becoming increasingly popular in the UK and North
America.




In a 53:20 mn movie,
Andrea Camilleri, writer and
André Buytaers, film director

lead you on an imaginary trip
across both historical and
modern Sicily.

(click on image).



Just finished to read "Il Sonaglio", the last novel of Camilleri's
metamorphosis trilogy and I'm even more impressed than I was
by the talent of the writer and the humour and thoughtfulness
of the man.

The Camilleri language.
and a glimpse to Sicily's history-geography-society.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Camilleri
- http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Camilleri
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Camilleri
- http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art62.htm (en)
- http://www.andreacamilleri.net/camilleri/index.html (it)
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Summer 2009 :
- The Italian Cultural Institute, in Vancouver, features mostly known
Camilleri's character, aka Inspector Montalbano.

(Check the ICI's program).

April 08, 2008

Andrea Camilleri vs Berlusco.

... "Il fatto è che quest'uomo (Sua Emittenza) inquina talmente la vita italiana nella sua interezza da costringerci a votare per Veltroni, pur se non convinti, perché è l'unico vero oppositore".


(Berlusco & Mozzarella Show)



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