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Intervista a Giovanni Merenda

Intervistamo today John Merenda, author of The Return of the devil (On facebook here ). The author, Messina, has staged some works inspired by Shakespeare and teatrrali published Sellerio the signal and the exile. Painter, is represented here by one of his creations.

Welcome. We start now from the text: Commissioner Martin makes continual references to the great classics of yellow: you need to outline a map of your favorite books of this kind?

I would like to make an introduction. I do not think it is important to the genre of literature. I think there are good novels, good novels, novels mediocre and horrible novels. Some of them have, of course, in recent times a great success audiences. No problem, it is time to do justice .

Speaking of literary genre means to shape careers a great writer of stories of espionage, while it is just a great writer.

We come to my preferences. I will not do rankings, but I can not be silent than for me is first of all the great Maigret, who still read with pleasure unchanged. Before talking about the writers who, unfortunately, there are more I honor among living writers, I still hope for a long time, James Ellroy, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, John Connolly , whose stories tend too much to the supernatural, but he writes well. For me writing quality counts for a lot and my readers know this. We are the masters who have left us. I like the realism and the simplicity of his stories Ed Mc Bain aka Evan Hunter aka Salvatore Albert Lombino, who was then his real name. I love another writer by many names, Donald Westlake, I enjoy it very much. The fifth and perhaps last novel in the series of Commissioner Martin, Ragusa The dancer, still unpublished, I have just finished writing, I wrote it thinking of him and I dedicated it to him.
come back in time in the novels of Rex Stout I like most of the bickering between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin , the yellow trams. For Agatha Christie prefer John Dickson Carr and with his overflowing baroque Dr. Gideon Fell.
I hope you did not forget anyone important.

visit the scene of a victim's house, listening to Martin's songs in line with the gradual change in his state of mind: what is the soundtrack of your writing?

The music that I put in all my novels reflects the importance that music has in my life. I would say that the music that my characters are listening to the most autobiographical of my work. And when I write, depending on what I write, I try to give my writing to a specific musical rhythm that I keep in constant time in each scene, but often, at least in my early works (The return of hell and is among them, I wrote between 2000 and 2001) for almost the whole affair.

I call "polite comedy" the figure of Shakespearean sergeant. In his biography refers to his own theatrical experience with the works of the Bard's more autobiography in which Martino Di Blasi, or has been poured into various characters?

Maybe a little 'more in Commissioner Martin. But in reality, in this novel I enjoyed putting something in my other characters . Of course you must know to notice. How to create

murder and investigations?

How are my stories is a mystery even to me.
My first novel, The signal , I wrote it in 1990. I had already written for the theater and I was moderately confident that one day I would write a very very serious autobiographical novel. I never thought I'd write thrillers. At that time the Italian writers of thrillers almost did not exist ... ah if the upholstery had sent my first novel in a bookstore (it was released in 1999) ...

One evening I went to the cinema alone to see the mystery Von Bulow ... Yes, I think it was called so ... while attending to the story in my head that my novel was born with the film's story had nothing to do.
The next day I made a careful steps, I knew everything was going to happen, and I began to write. The happy surprise was that, perhaps due to my experience of theatrical writing, the characters after a few pages in the dialogues began to speak for themselves . I finished in eight months, I write, I read, reread rewrite, rewrite, etc etc ... I am very sensitive to the shape ... I can meditate on a word 2 hours.
just finished the signal, I immediately started Exile which is always released in 2001 for the upholstery.

In all these novels, including The Return of the devil , I lay before you begin an accurate lineup.
But now when I write a story I just know how it starts and how it ends, the rest comes to life in the form of notes while I'm writing.

We welcome snack and Commissioner John Martin, hoping to read soon of his investigations.