In an period wherein varied crime subgenres, reminiscent of noir, thriller and crime fiction, dominate the publishing market and gross sales charts, the historical past of literature teaches us that fiction imitates actuality, albeit in an imperfect type. Human actions and behaviors, typically irrational, are the supply of inspiration for each work of fiction, making man the good creator of his personal existence. Why not inform the crime not by “narrative fiction”, that’s, by the invention of a plot round an imaginary crime, however as an alternative utilizing narration to reconstruct a criminal offense story? That is the essence of true crime literature, which has its forerunners in Meyer Levin (Compulsion) and clearly Truman Capoteand whose best up to date consultant is maybe Emmanuel Carrere.
True crime has a robust fascination. Maybe because of the morbidity that dwells in human beings or the need to disclose the unknown. Or once more for the innate attraction in direction of what’s perverse, violent and sick, in direction of all the pieces that deviates from normality. By these tales we attempt to perceive the thoughts of a typical prison, to know what can push an individual to cross the restrict.
In Italy, nonetheless, this kind of story has by no means had literary recognition, a collection in its personal proper, high-level books have hardly ever been revealed, and if they’ve occurred, they’ve remained remoted instances. One wonders why, regardless of the wealth of narrative materials (and the power to cope with crime on TV: In the future within the magistrates’ court docket, Cursed tales, Who has seen it), And to make issues worse, in latest instances true crime has turn out to be the topic of tales by so-called “influencers”, with the consequence of virtually at all times amateurish writing and approximate if not absent documentation.
The digital necklace Black sulphur of longform true crime needs to treatment and inaugurate one thing that has by no means been achieved in Italy. Whereas the fictional crime story implacably falls right into a style of pure leisure, with a consoling intent, detective tales and so-called noirs for youngsters’s readers, with good and jovial detectives, typically comical if not ridiculous, even tinged with regionalistic humour, and the true crime non-fiction is within the arms of “influencers”, Black sulphur emerges as the one bastion of literary crime non-fiction and a novelistic method to nice tales.
True tales of heinous, ingenious or silly crimes dedicated by strange individuals. Tales concerning the fracture, that inscrutable second that divides the conventional being from the monster. The monster we’d by no means wish to confront however who lives subsequent to our home. However not solely that: tales of unsolved murders, inexplicable disappearances, serial killers who problem investigators. Instances of people that disappeared into skinny air, with out leaving a hint. Good or imperfect crimes that make us shudder and hold our anxiousness alive.
Black tales that surpass each literary fantasy in literariness and that pressure us to look into the darkest abysses of the human soul and face the evil that may dwell in every of us.
The primary titles already launched or about to be launched, all on the worth of €2.99, are written by Antonio Pagliarowho takes care of the collection, Lucio Luca, Salvatore Sanfilippo, Carmelo Sardo, Edoardo Zambelli. The tales he’ll inform Black Sulphur they’re well-known and fewer well-known, Italian or in any other case: the thriller opened the collection Katarzyna Zowadaa grim story of disappearance that shocked Poland, adopted by the unusual case of the Palermo serial killer and the story about Hans Reiser, an excellent laptop scientist who selected his spouse from a catalog after which killed her. Different instances scheduled: Denise Pipitonand, the Japanese cannibal, the Cassibile monster, the homicide of the little boy Francesco Ferreri, the Sicilian thriller of Viviana and Gioele.
The appointment on the principle digital shops is the fifteenth of each month with a brand new thrilling title. In a number of days the second title, The invisible man by Lucio Luca who tells the unimaginable story of Antonino Velio Sprioa serial killer who bloodied Palermo for a decade with out the State and the anti-State, i.e. the mafia, understanding what was taking place.
