A Valley City, died parties and parishes, do not command
parliamentarians, governors, mayors, presidents of banks and associations
, directors,
judges and colonels. Command families. It is the
arengo consists of a few private groups
headed by leaders who relate
together to form the backbone of power ...
Giuliano Ramazzini, Outside Market Area
Books 2002
is not among the most fascinating yellow-noire of Carlotto but it is a lucid critical analysis of a portion of an Italian company represented from what we know today as the Northeast. It 'a complaint by the lust for power, wealth, dedication lawlessness that becomes normal and usually do not talk about the south but the quiet, productive far north where surely the best interests of residents, recycling and business mafia. Those of Videtta Carlotto and eyes are different than those in Roberto Saviano "Gomorra" but the subject described is the same as seen from different angles and with different experiences lived. The first page
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Wednesday as many
It was a Wednesday like any other. A Wednesday invernodel of the Northeast. During the day the streets were filled with commuters and truck. Long lines were clogged highways, state and province. In Padua and Vicenza, for the umpteenth time, the pollution had exceeded the legal limits. The flyover of Mestre, in the night, was still a snake of trucks that were advancing slowly in both directions. Legal and illegal goods going to and from eastern Europe. That day they had shut down four other companies, the largest was fifty-one employees. Four more empty warehouses for rent with the inscription, translated into Chinese. Sheds had spoken in the morning, a professor of urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture in Venice. To his students he explained that, by dint of constructing warehouses
2500 year, had been diverted from the agricultural landscape of 3.500 square kilometers and that only in the province of Treviso there were 279 industrial zones, an average of four per municipality.
The teacher was concerned, he said that the devastation of the territory was wide and deep. Perhaps irreparable. Now the warehouses in the Northeast had erased the memory and identity to the inhabitants of earth. And there was talk of local identity in another university. Three out of four people continued to use the dialect, even in a professional environment. A comforting, had defined: the dialect was a matter of great importance to community cohesion.
And many dialect expressions were used during a conference held at the Museum of the boot to Montebelluna where he announced the relocation of 44 companies in the footwear industry. Blame the Chinese, he was told. The imports of leather shoes from Asian countries had increased by 700% last year.
Minister of Productive Activities had called for the introduction of anti-dumping duties to stem the flow. And Coldiretti, in a statement, expressed his concern for the importation from China of wild beans and vegetables in brine, in some important production areas in the Northeast. Also that day, the Chinese had bought a pair of public spaces and other commercial establishments. Always paid in cash, without discuss the price. Of money had been discussed at other meetings where representatives of the bank had noted a positive increase in quarterly earnings. And the profits of 262 total evaders had spoken at a press conference of the financial police. During the investigation had been discovered 1,200 illegal workers and 776 irregular.
Many of them were foreigners without a residence permit. And illegal aliens were the majority of people arrested by the police on that Wednesday in the Northeast. For years, criminal cultures from the east and south of the world had settled in the territory, the Italian organized crime was a thing of the chroniclers of black. The prostitutes, despite the cold and the fog had begun to beat since the late morning on the province. At that hour of the night had invaded towns and cities. The industry pulled. Such as drugs, for that matter. In crisis instead prostitution in nightclubs and local lap dance. The managers of night clubs were the first to realize the symptoms of the economic downturn. Industrial and professionals who crowded those places first, spending a few thousand euro a night champagne and girlie, see you did not. Best of the preceding year only wine production, whose exports were increased. Even that
Wednesday hundreds of boxes of Marzemino, Prosecco, Sauvignon and other wines were shipped all over the world. At the political level rather than the future was uncertain, although the elections had confirmed the previous government. Also that day there had been confidential meetings and in the majority and opposition in an attempt to heal the internal divisions and conflicts of power. It seemed that nobody was able to rule the future. It was a Wednesday like any other. Spent the twenty-fourth hour, the fog is thick and milky, dominated everywhere. The throbbing heart of the Northeast slower taking advantage of the lull in the night.
Massimo Carlotto
From the cover:
Northeast, co-written by Massimo Carlotto, Marco Videtta says a theme old, the father-son relationship, its place in the Northeast Italian. A land rich and complex, considered the locomotive of the Italian economy today is experiencing an epochal crisis that led to the flight of industry to China and Romania. And it is precisely the environment in big industrial families that they become murder of a young woman to be married. In the background the "country", the name does not matter because all over the Northeast big families are all alike and the territory has no identity.
Northeast is a noir that, from a crime, said the lawlessness that has allowed us to accumulate great wealth and an economic system that has never posed problems compared to the looting of the territory.
main character is Francis, son of the second richest family in the "country", a young lawyer had written that the future will have to deal with its environment and choose between truth and "normal."
Carlotto and Videtta, fans of the genre, have chosen to pool their specificity to dig deeper into the reality of the Northeast, to highlight the characters and contexts. As always Carlotto's novels, the plot is inspired by real events.
The site of Massimo Carlotto: http://www.massimocarlotto.it/
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