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I'm Still Alive by Saviano and Hanuka: The Minotaur Who Fought Against the Mafia

2022-02-09T15:11:30.786Z


BD CHRONICLE - A writer sentenced to death continues to write at the risk of his life. Fascinating.


Some covers catch the eye more than others.

That of the album

I'm still alive

, unpublished autobiography of the author of

Gomorrah

, adapted into a comic strip by Asaf Hanuka (published in 2006), is part of the lot.

Above all, it strikes the imagination with its simplicity and its metaphorical power.

Let us judge.

Perched on the handlebars of a giant pistol, a little bald man in a gray suit and red shirt stands out against a black background.

Tilting his head forward, he seems to be wondering - with a mixture of defiance and concern - if a bullet will come out of the barrel of this monstrous firearm.

This hypothetical, dreaded bullet is the one that the killers of the Neapolitan mafia intend to administer to the head of the writer Roberto Saviano, since he was sentenced to death fifteen years ago.

His crime?

To have told in a novel-investigation with worldwide success the miserable little heap of secrets of the criminal empire of the Camorra.

His book singled him out as a target.

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Source: lefigaro

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