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Intervista a Lello Gurrado

by Glenda Gurrado

Gurrado Lello, Bari soul but living in Milan since 1950, working as a professional journalist since he was 22 years: editor, editor, special correspondent in the papers of the most important publishing houses as Mondadori, Rizzoli Corriere della Sera. The author of Mestieraccio , The sdrogati , Mamma heroin , If I quit I , San Siro football Scale , priest Don Mazzi Cowboy , Nomination , Murder in the library , Bet (which we reviewed on Temperamente here ).

Welcome to Temperament. She is an accomplished crime writer.

The imagination of a writer is a precious jewel that many of us would have. Where does the inspiration for his intricate yellow?

Locate the paths of the imagination is very difficult, perhaps impossible. I can try to point out two ways: first reading. To write you must read, read, read. Consciously or unconsciously, something remains. The second street, in my case, it is the experience. I make a journalist for forty years now, I have lived in the newsroom, I did the left in Italy and abroad, and certainly have been witness to events large and small has served to keep alive the imagination.

The comparison between a literary critic and a writer is a very compelling in his book. What is your relationship with the critics? Friends or enemies and ruthless as a slaves Renato Francesco De Vita?

My relationship with the critics is neither good nor bad. It is simply non-existent. I have no friends among them and I auguro di non avere neppure nemici. Ed è giusto che sia così. Quando si interpongono rapporti personali l’obiettività ne risente e il lettore, secondo me, lo avverte.

Nella recensione da poco temperata parlo de La scommessa come una riflessione sul giallo stesso. Il messaggio che vi ho scorto è che spesso la realtà supera la fantasia e ne è il suo specchio più limpido. Spero di non aver travisato il messaggio della sua opera.

Nella Scommessa c’è sicuramente una riflessione sul giallo. Una riflessione e anche, se vogliamo, una presa di distanza da questo genere che, a mio avviso, sta rischiando l’inflazione. Regarding the relationship between fantasy and reality, no, I think the first is still unreachable. With the imagination always wins. Watch the finale of the bet: the story ends in two different ways, both plausible, and we could find a third or final quarter as credible. There are solutions that only the imagination allows. The reality is however, one from which you can not escape.

is fond of his characters as is Renato Slaves in yellow that we have reviewed? Would like to know?

Oh yes, very much. 'd Gladly go to dinner with Commissioner Gerber, I would chat with Joan Smith and spend an evening with the Smith family to complete. Would I see a little 'less willing Walter Small, the director of the prison.

Would you like if one of his stories to reach the big screen? The bet could be a cinematic masterpiece. If so, what film would you choose?

course I would, it would be a beautiful thing. As for director Hitchcock and unfortunately there is no more then you will mention three: Roman Polanski, Spike Lee, and Giuseppe Tornatore. But perhaps here too we are running with the imagination.

Lello Gurrado Thanks for giving us a chip in his career and his thought.