Andrea Camilleri, Taddei Great Circus and Other Stories Vigata Sellerio Editore, Palermo, 2011
Eight short stories all set in Vigata in the years before or after the War of Liberation. In "The Trouble with" so many women of the country, they will agree to play a trick on one of them, too zealous in denouncing the fascist authorities or those who dislike those who "casts a shadow." Joke that manages perfectly the logic of the ending of "the wicked punished."
The second, "Christmas Gifts" is a story of crime in a country comic sauce. A memorable scene in which members of the association "Family & Democracy" begins shooting in the air in the room where they gathered to gamble, believing that the noise caused by the fall of a tray of glasses was actually the shot of a revolver.
In "The blackbird speaking" the animal remembers the last words he heard and repeated constantly, putting a serious problem in young and unsuspecting husband. Taddei
Grand Circus is the story, which turns on the grotesque, the transition from Vigata a circus made up of a lion who loses his hair and roars, five horses and three beautiful girls who know very well manage their thanks. The "bulls" of the country's other main characters, dealing with the organization of a vicious joke. The purpose criminal succeeds, but becomes boomerang.
In "The end of the mission" a lawyer with a pleasant appearance and remarkable physical and moral qualities, during the night turns into a shadow that penetrates into homes to carry out missions "beneficial". What type of missions you'll find out whether the player.
"A carousel ride is the only story of the bitter harvest. It 's the story of a child named Benito to the will of the mayor, that does look good in front of the Duce. The small will suffer the fate of oppression and bowing to his fate when he discovers a bit 'of happiness and love will be too late.
The last two, "The trovatura" and "Revelation," tell stories of fiction and jokes with the final unveiling. A happy ending to the first, the second most bitter.
the background of each story, the portrait of the age in which it takes place, the way people think, the laws that existed.
common denominator of all accounts, a highly charged sensuality and eroticism: unstoppable force of nature that wins on war, destruction and death. "It was life that exploded throughout the know 'power, was the joy of what Vivir isavi the moon at night I know the' passanno hand over the ceilings and the roof, was the powerful voices of youth that exceeded the barrier of dense cotton plugs and penetrated nell'oricchi like an echo of Nito unreachable "(from" A carousel ride ").
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