The Verdict

Gente lontana(People Far Away), the novel that Corrado Altavilla published in Milan in 1938, is a curious, very captivating mixture of narrative voices. Above all, the novel is a “giallo” (detective story), in fact, what Americans call a police procedural, a narration that has its moment of greatest...

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1. Verfasser:	Corrado Altavilla
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied arts Architectural elements Architecture Arts Behavioral sciences Common rooms Conclusions of fact Criminal arrests Emigration Families Family members Fiction Government Government services Guilty verdicts Human geography Human migration Human societies Interior spaces Judicial decision making Judicial panels Judicial system Juries Law Law enforcement Law enforcement procedures Legal proceedings Literary genres Literature Living rooms Novels Police Political science Rooms Social institutions Social sciences Sociology Sons Trial court proceedings Trials Verdicts
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Zusammenfassung:	Gente lontana(People Far Away), the novel that Corrado Altavilla published in Milan in 1938, is a curious, very captivating mixture of narrative voices. Above all, the novel is a “giallo” (detective story), in fact, what Americans call a police procedural, a narration that has its moment of greatest tension in the trial phase. At the same time, it is also a metropolitan novel, whose best pages are those dedicated to the description of New York: its mythic underworlds, its affluent sections, and the Babel of people who live there, strongly typified. Although characterized by a rapid pace, a nervousness,