Saturday, November 18, 2017

Good Perspectives On The Mobster Crime Novel

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 are those people identified with the Italian mob groups whose stories could make really fascinating reading, but these actually belong to a longer general tradition that addresses any kind of criminal group as the central focus. A Mobster Crime Novel will therefore include lots of other groups of this kind. But the Sicilian mob in America is certainly a classic item for this kind of book.

You could say that this topic has seen its heyday in past decades. There have been numerous written works that have even been translated into film about gangsters, their molls or girlfriends, their various crime operations and how they fight with the law and among themselves. The drama is often high and the tones are serious, dark and tragic.

Crime is not a thing that many folks willingly go into, and lots of mobsters could actually be trying to find a way out. But for most it is not about liking the life, but accepting the circumstances and the needed sacrifice that are needed with some wit or even humor. Portrayals are always connected to a life full of violence, loss and pain.

While criminals pay in the end, there are times when they are portrayed as do gooders, sort of like the Robin Hood type of criminal who steals from the rich to give to the poor. Mobsters, too, have this integral quality, because they often fight for a cause in a political or national climate which disregards the rights of their constituents. They may have formed their groups to protect their people.

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.

Oppressive systems often breed enemies, and folks that become these may be labeled criminal but the truth will not often be justified. The issues that have been discussed are often selling points for any book in this genre. Authors though are careful note spouse philosophies, but let them speak for themselves and how they play out as reality in the lives of characters.

All these make this novel a unique perspective into the real men and women who have thrown their lot in to leading dangerous lives. They may even be some of the most intelligent people around. And the way this novel is sought after is telling in that a lot of readers sympathize with the causes found in it.




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