Consciousness of Montalbano (La)

There are six stories here called a collection, with an obvious change of scale compared to novels. Stories gathered for the first time in volume, written in different times and not included in the anthologies that Camilleri published in life. The short frames, the rapinity of rhythm, the shortened juxtaposition of the plots, the sghemba writing and without incests, the encryption of the humorous talent, are to the full advantage of the sharp rendering of the texts and the suggestions that the readers are brought to collect. The stories reconcile a different way of reading, in a closer complicity with the narrator's militias. On the other hand they ensure the same enjoyment offered by the wide stories of Montalbano novels. In one case, Camilleri's narrative playfulness, allusively coding in a story another story, opens to the yellow story a wider space made of calls and dissonances. It happens in the third story that, already in the title, "The window on the courtyard", reports to the Hitchcock film; but to tell, in total narrative autonomy, another story: the strange and mysterious story of the "homo supra to the terrace... of infacci", suspiciously provided with rope and binoculars; a whole new case, and unpredictable solution, for the commissioner in Rome. The cases (also human; not only delittuosi) that Montalbano finds himself having to unravel offer the investigations minimal clues, of problematic decipheration, which impose approaches of caution or subtle games of counterpiede: be it a body of a woman who is barbaricly "macellata"; of the disappearance of a precious ring; of the finding of a corpse "arrotuliated dintra a blanket", after the storms of a night of Ferragosto; of the pyrotechnic consequences (almost like in an American film, with so much soundtrack) of the wrong engagement between a student of good family and a killer of mafia; of the vinattiere divided between taxes and lace, while Montalbano rescues with solutions that lead him to juggling (among autoironic accomplishments) with some "idea to the James Bond". Everything is entrusted to the analytical intelligence of the commissioner who, indulging when he needs, knows how to browse the palinsesti of the various lives with which he comes in contact in the daily disorder.