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Italians Do It Differently: Giorgio Scerbanenco’s Appropriation of the American Hard-Boiled Novel
Abstract
Prolific Italian crime writer Giorgio Scerbanenco appropriated the conventions of the American hard-boiled novel to put forward a critique of Italian society of the 1960s. Far from imitating a foreign formula, however, this author was able to formulate an all-Italian approach to crime fiction that continues to inspire contemporary crime writers in Italy.