Dreams of Bunker Hill , Einaudi, 2004 ( Dreams from Bunker Hill , 1982 )
from Colorado to Los Angeles, California dreaming of a green tint to the dollar, the young Italian-American Arturo Bandini chasing the chimera of literary success after the big jump from a fast food waiter in the port of Los Angeles employed by the newspaper magnate Heinrich Muller. At the dawn of its entry into the lap of those who count, Bandini takes first as a proofreader for the awkward then enter nell'aureo Hall of screenwriters in Hollywood, coupled with a tired and somewhat narcissistic shooting star of the movie scene where the local Life now seems inevitably launched on Sunset Boulevard of those who were. Depressed by expectations of a Betrayed by dazzling work premises, the confident young writer in love at least the owner of the hotel site on Bunker Hill I usually stay at. But the feelings, like art, seem to plasticize the presence of a reality he sees around his worn-goers perpetually poised between exaltation and self-centered personality of rarefied slip dramatically exacerbated the desperation of oblivion.
The latest novel by John Fante, Italian-American from Colorado as the alter ego of many of his novels, is quite sharp and ruthless analysis of the glossy world of the Mecca of American cinema. His character is a confused anti-hero that moves through the streets of Los Angeles alienating that nothing seems to allow for a moment the man who has the good fortune to run into the rear of their fragility. Bandini, dreamer of the province, is also a coward who tender on several occasions try to leave the filthy quagmire into which suddenly finds himself caught up, but never do it at all, because he's brilliant character prey Build a precipitous climb to the fury of ivory tower. But Jack, in his artistic testament, does not want to leave the scene making us swallow hectoliters of new bohemian style bitterness of mold and decided to give the reader a last hope of salvation. He does it quietly, through the innocence of a childhood nursery rhyme which our main character relies reappearance at the gates opened to the American dream. Cynical, irreverent and ruthlessly sarcastic.
rating 8 / 10 Joe Joseph
Castronuovo
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