Carlo Lucarelli
A little 'invents: yellow and writes thrillers that have hit the bookstore. A little 'examines: unsolved mysteries Italian tells his hit series "Blue Night" on television. Carlo Lucarelli has Lavarone afternoon in his last opera, "The left side of the heart", publisher Einaudi, collection of 53 stories.
It 's more interesting to analyze or invent yellow mysteries?
"It 's much more fun and easier to fantasy. It takes you where you want. You find out things as we go forward."
And guess who is always the murderess.
"Not always. In the end how the story ends like the book. The book takes your hand. I never know what happens at the end. At first I do not know even who the murderess. I discover as I write. Many are sometimes at odds with the history, when making a turn that I do not like. "
What is a thriller for people?
"So many things. One fact narrative, a great way to tell stories. Because it relies on some of the typical devices of narrative: the sense of mystery, suspense, the plot twist. Then beyond the morbidity there are other things, death, lies, truth, justice. Finally, the yellow has a particular way of seeing things, which is through the dark underbelly of things. "
Explain.
" Go the other way which is not normal. Do you want to analyze a piece of the company? Through what you do not see every day but you do it for example by what you see at night. "
One of the criticisms that make the Italian literature is that it comes on, which has no plot, storyline, does not tell stories.
"Yellow has closed two holes in Italian fiction. The first was the lack of stories. If you want to create tension through plot twists, you always have to tell events. We have always been obliged to create texture and patterns possibly that would create emotions ".
The second hole?
"The yellow even when it has metaphysical concrete things: roads, cities, clothes, people, real things. While the Italian literature, in a certain period, he spoke little of reality." Sometimes in
Your TV seems to even things you consider mysteries well established.
"I always describe the technique of yellow. I do not to bore people. But there is another reason. We always know" almost "everything. Never more. Until now, a story that you know everything I have not ever seen. There is no ".
The truth does not exist?
"In Italy there are at least four truths. The legal truth, the only one who can tell you without getting sued. But not necessarily be the truth. Then there is the historical truth. But is revised. Then there the truth of common sense. Type Pasolini said that he knew that even though he had the evidence. Finally, the political truth. A great slaughter. How do you say that there is a story that you know everything? If you think you can not ever trust anyone, not even of the bodies to establish the truth. "
is now legal truth that people in charge to establish the truth we performed judicial proceedings false truth!
"And anyway, truth is the first judicial instance. In six months those judges could be acquitted and sued us. "
But
we did not do names. The mystery over mystery of all?
"The murder of Francesca Alinovi, 1983, Professor of Dams killed, legal truth, by Ciancabilla, sentenced to 16 years. But too many oddities. Quadrano bad times. The dynamics of the murder does not agree with the motive ".
one where the legal truth is approaching less your opinion?
"The hand on the fire is not put on anything. But the case of Massimo Carlotto, convicted for the murder of her friend, Margaret Magellan, is what leaves me more puzzled. During the various processes there were many exculpatory evidence that a series of unfortunate events failed to admit. Carlotto the case at universities has become a case of school. They call it "bad luck judiciaire."
Once the murderess in yellow was always Butler. Now?
"Now there's no one's above suspicion."
have all become stewards.
" There are still some categories of people where it is easier to hide the murderess. The best is that of women and girls vulnerable. Many murderers, novels and thrillers, young girls are taken at the end turn out to be hyenas.
Yellow is right or Left?
"There's a physiological tendency to be yellow on the left. Just because it is often critical, is a novel of social denunciation. Write more and what does not. Maybe they are ideological, but these things belong to the left. "
There is more crime now?
"I would say no. We talk about the most. Then there are periods of time. At one point there was the period of murderous mothers. Five or six next to each other. There seemed to be a collective madness mothers. Now that has happened? The mothers do not kill more children? But no, still happen, but it is not spoken. "
Perhaps because Vespa is on vacation. How come you never go to Porta a Porta?
" I was invited but could not. And then, what say you go to? Nothing is known. Until you know the process starts only journalistic indiscretions. There are even five possible murder weapons. Then there is also another reason. I murder the children do not like. They make me feel. Have not you noticed? Children are never killed in my novels. "