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Thursday, November 16, 2017

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By Deborah Anderson


What many people like in books is often related to genre. And there are lots of these available and new ones crop up every year, although the major ones have all been defined and what is new could be innovative mash ups or combinations of the old. Novels that are about detectives and criminals are a mixture of the classic and the new.

Mafiosi or people connected to the Italian Mafia have made for fascinating reading, but they are only a part of a general classification which will include any kind of organized criminal activity central to the theme of a book. The Mobster Crime Novel thus could include all sorts of groups. But the classic sense of the term is certainly about La Cosa Nostra, which is derived from Sicilian origins.

You might say this topic had its golden age in some decades past. There were numerous works put out during that time, often adapted for film or television, with gangsters and their molls, the criminal operations, and they way they fight with each other and with their own numbers. Drama is intense for this subject, and the tone is high, serious and often tragic.

Crime is not something that many people go into willingly and the mobsters will be the last to admit that they like it. In fact, there is no liking this thing, but an acceptance and willingness to pay the price of their vocation is carried with laconic wit and mordant humor. The life portrayed here is in constant violent motion and danger.

They say criminals will pay but there could be a factor which mitigates this, when the persons involved act as Robin Hoods, fighting or stealing from the rich to help poor people. Some gangsters even have this kind of belief, because many may have joined to fight against oppression, injustice and a hated political system. They may even have been founded for protecting their own.

Laws here say that this might be wrong, although the Sicilians and African Americans in mobs point to oppressive laws and social systems. It means they have been fighting for having better laws, and those which are equal, less about having one specific group lord it over everyone else because they are supposed to be better. Discrimination, racism or prejudice could motivate folks to form mobs.

A book which covers their activities and their philosophies and dreams will need to be well researched. Some authors themselves may have come from these groups originally but are now focusing on telling the world the inner spirit which has driven these movements. And these are real movements with relevant causes, too.

Oppression will breed a reaction, and even when the law labels this reaction criminal, it might not be necessarily so in many important respects. The mentioned points are also the points that make the novel type being discussed here successful. They may not directly espouse philosophies but make it inherent in the quality of lives of their characters reflecting known realities.

All the points make this kind of novel very unique, a view into how men or women have willingly accepted the danger inherent in crime. These people may even have excellent qualities like intelligence and sympathy. And how many people like reading this type of book means that they understand how these causes work.




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