“Navi a Perdere” by Carlo Lucarelli

by Alessio Sciurpa

Entered in the charts between the books bestsellers in Italy noir of the Edizioni Ambiente written by Carlo Lucarelli. The book takes its cue from a phenomenon, the lose ships, already addressed by Legambiente in its annual reports “Rapporto Ecomafia”. The story told, particularly emblematic, is the "Jolly Rosso" story that it aground on the beach in province of Cosenza in December 1990. The affair, which was also occupied the “Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Cycle Waste and Illegal Activities related to it ", chaired by Paul Russo, who in his final report, approved at its meeting on 15 February 2006,says: "The Commission has also recorded the occurrence of additional elements, represented largely by statements of collaborators of justice, from the Calabrian organized crime, which reported the existence of a pactum sceleris between the 'ndrangheta and businessmen in the sector of waste, in virtue of which, were planned and carried out numerous Sinkings ships laden with toxic waste case in marine Calabrian (and especially in the Ionian Sea, which by its characteristics of depth, could be better to finally disappear traces of the criminal enterprise)".

For the launch of the book it used a tool like the booktrailer, very intriguing, but not yet very widespread.

Here's the author interview conducted by Emiliano Angelelli director of VerdeNero Blog:

Do you believe in novels socially useful? And above all believe that the noir genre is a socially useful?
Yes. In fact I think novels are all socially useful when they are written well and with sincerity. The noir perhaps it is. It is not the only genre to play this type of function, but physiologically it does, because is interested in things that do not work and tell the complaint.

"Navi a Perdere" seems a thought also for television. Do you think that in future "Blu Notte", your TV show, will follow the strand of ecomafia?
Blu Notte already partly did so, with the bet that we have dedicated to asbestos. Of course we want to continue with this line and could also be that this will be a topic of ours. "Navi a Perdere" wasn't written thinking on television. The fact is that, I always write in the same way (ndr. Lucarelli laughs), so if I deal with my narrative experimentation is a type of story and when things really my way of telling you that. So if anything when I am writing to television to novels.

From 25 to 100 ships disappeared during a little more than a decade in an area, the Tyrrhenian Sea near Calabria, very narrow. Ships of poisons are therefore a social drama?
Definitely yes. We are always on the assumptions. The ships were sunk and many believe that they contained poisons. This is the basis on which to reason. I'm sure that many terrible things happened in the ocean. Already only one hundred ships sink are strange and an ugly disaster. And it is true that we used as make bad thoughts, and many times to have reason to do so, we think that in our seas, there are many poisons. Anyway, yes it is a social drama. When it begins to poison the sea, the land and the air who breathes. the problem becomes global of all.

In "Navi a Perdere" shows the figure of Comiero, faccendiere impelagato disposal of radioactive waste. And speaking of radioactive waste was born a connection with the case Ilaria Alpi. Another unsolved mystery of our country ...
The engineer Comerio indeed is seen and heard in relation to a whole series of reports about these events, including the case Ilaria Alpi. Rather than find another home in a series of documents that speak of these facts. It is of course the courts to investigate these events. What is certain is that there are many assonance, many nearby playing disturbing.

Wu Ming 1 recently launched a literary debate with the publication of "New Italian Epic," an essay that tries to identify a common thread among several contemporary Italian writers. She recognizes in this literary vein?
Absolutely yes. I believe to be part of this nebula, this archipelago of writers trying to write novels comprehensive addressing issues that have to do with our history and our present in "epic". I fully recognize us.