Andrea Camilleri: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction) by Lucia Rinaldi

Author:Lucia Rinaldi [Lucia Rinaldi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-11T19:55:00+00:00

Montalbano, Salvo

Inspector Salvo Montalbano is the protagonist of the large majority of Camilleri's detective stories. He appeared for the first time in the 1994 novel La forma dell'acqua (The Shape of Water), and since then he has become one of the most popular figures of policemen in contemporary Italian mystery writing and television.

To shape this detective figure, Camilleri has drawn from different literary sources; there are obvious influences from the classic detective novel, noir fiction, and recent European mystery literature. Camilleri has repeatedly declared that the name of his protagonist is meant to be an homage to his friend, the Catalan crime writer Manuel Vazquez Montalban. He also has explained that Georges Simenon's work has influenced him; he read Simenon's novels in his childhood and adapted them for RAI television dramas in the 1960s. Moreover, he has acknowledged his debts, on more than one level, to fellow Sicilian writer and friend Leonardo Sciascia, the influence of whom is not limited to his writing. Camilleri has explained that his friend's characteristics have helped him construct Montalbano; for example, Camilleri has drawn on Sciascia's discomfort in making public speeches, his long silences, and his irony (Sorgi, La testa cifa dire 99).

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