Having conducted a thorough analysis of the social and economic environment of the Northeast of Italy and having exposed a scenario of widespread illegality and culpable collusion in his Alligatore series and noir novels, Massimo Carlotto concluded a narrative cycle by enlarging his object of analysis to a wider geographical area. This process culminates in Respiro corto (2012), which traces the most recent phases of the evolution of internationally organized crime marking the inextricability of the local and global dimensions in contemporary society. When placed within the context of the superimposing traditions of impegno and Italian crime writing, the presence of this component turns out to be particularly interesting insofar as its persistence introduces an innovative approach to both traditions.

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• Frezzato, E. L., (2025), "From a Local to a Global Perspective in Crime Writing: On Massimo Carlotto, Impegno, and Respiro corto", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Frezzato, Enrichetta Lucilla. "From a Local to a Global Perspective in Crime Writing: On Massimo Carlotto, Impegno, and Respiro corto." Quaderni d'italianistica 37 (1): 2017. 107-124. DOI: 10.33137/q.i..v37i1.28281. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Quaderni d'italianistica. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Quaderni d'italianistica under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.