The increasing success of crime fiction and its different subgenres in Italy during the last two decades can be seen as the consequence of both literary and social reasons. These factors can also explain the evolution of the genre throughout the XXth century, as well as the strong influence of French néo-polar novelists and those politically committed American writers of the twenties. Unfortunately, just a few Italian novels and writers are known in Spain, and those translated into Spanish are not able to show either the real dimensions of the phenomenon, or the high number of current trends.... [Leer más...]