I noticed that the authors of the last three books I read are similar. I mean, is not really resemble that, but somehow similar. Meanwhile Gianni Mura, Gianni Clerici Giampaolo Dossena and all three are over 60 - actually, the last two are over 75. Sure, I get older and the age of my gods hand in hand goes away. Several are even dead.
But here I would write the book of Mura, " Yellow on Yellow" and the synopsis of the three will do Gianni again. I am still convinced that they should be very well, in a hypothetical coterie.
Gianni Mura, I said. Readers of The Republic knows, maybe appreciate it. Definitely knows his weekly column, "Seven days bad thoughts": a course that says the key events of the week, especially sporting events (Walls writes about sports), but with frequent and extensive forays into politics, ' enology, puzzles, news. comments very funny and often very bitter, and almost always shared - at least for me.
Besides that's why I bought it and read his "Yellow on Yellow " despite presenting himself as a thriller (though it'!?). I also enjoyed, although it is actually a thriller in the classic sense. (Explanation of the apparent contradiction: I do not read detective stories, but I like them.)
Meanwhile, the protagonist is the author himself, Gianni Mura, Gornal sent to the Tour de France 2005 (the second yellow title). When ever we have seen a yellow autobiographical, albeit with a fantasy story? Instead, the facts here happen at the Tour and Gianni Mura which again follows from the left, from suiveur . In fact, the novel takes place between reporters, runners, organizers. Walls following the Tour since '67, that environment knows him pretty well. Remember, digressions, Gypsies and gossip about the Tour, his characters, his world are in fact part of the larger (and better) than this book. Why Gianni Mura is not familiar with only the Tour, but also France, its culture, its towns and villages, chansonnier and poets, and then its wines and its food. Walls of the rest - which is the school of Gianni Brera - keep even with his wife, a section on culinary Friday.
So for each stage there is a restaurant, a specialty wine, distillate, a landscape. Moreover to be a journalist (the Barzini said, I think) is always better than working .
But most of all for each phase of the left Republic must send his piece. Walls and puts them all, his articles from the Tour, in the novel. Articles imaginary, of course. Because in "Yellow on Yellow" are fictional characters, real characters with real name, and characters with the name changed but recognizable. The game recognizes if there is someone behind every name, and who he is, is another enjoyable feature of the yellow. Easy to see that behind Bill Sheldon, American is going to win the 7th Tour after beating cancer, there is Lance Armstrong, who is behind the Kapetanova Kazakh Vinokourov (now 21 ° after 9 stages of the Tour 2007), that behind the Dane Jorgensen, said "chicken" because of the slender legs, is the current yellow jersey, Rasmussen, who is behind Valli Italian Basso, currently banned for doping. Yes I read this book because it was during the Tour de France underway, followed by Gianni Mura for The Republic . For a few days I read articles on the imaginary walls Tour 2005 and the articles on the real Wall Tour 2007. Armstrong has run that was not withdrawn Last year, I could easily confuse the two chronicles.
This post is already superlungo. I would only add that this reading made me realize something I already knew (it happens) that the prose here, journalistic, and made up of short term dry and dense, has a huge potential of literature and unable to switch from ludolinguistica the news without caesura and without rhetoric. I already knew and now I know.
