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Muchas gracias. See 1 question about Murder in the Central Committee…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Viene assassinato il segretario generale del PCE in piena riunione del Comitato Centrale e Carvalho viene ingaggiato per scoprire l'assassino, come Poirot e Maigret nei gialli della Christie e di Simenon.
View 2 comments. Apr 08, John rated it it was ok. A few years after the death of Franco and the return to Spain of a form of democracy, the venerable Secretary General of the Communist Party, a hero of the Civil War, is murdered in circumstances that would seem to have made murder impossible.
It's not actually a locked-room mystery, although the characters and many readers describe it as such. Barcelona PI Pepe Carvalho, himself an ex-communist who was imprisoned by Franco, is called to Madrid to investigate, the Party committee members havin A few years after the death of Franco and the return to Spain of a form of democracy, the venerable Secretary General of the Communist Party, a hero of the Civil War, is murdered in circumstances that would seem to have made murder impossible.
Barcelona PI Pepe Carvalho, himself an ex-communist who was imprisoned by Franco, is called to Madrid to investigate, the Party committee members having little confidence in the cop who's been put in charge of the case, a brutal enforcer during the Franco years. I spotted the gimmick of the murder early on, and was startled that Carvalho and everyone else chose willfully to ignore it almost for the duration.
Aside from that, though, I spent large tracts of the novel feeling as if I were lost and flailing, uncertain of what was going on and why it was going on.
There were extensive digressions on communist theory and communism's Spanish history, and these I quite enjoyed, as I did those on literature and food. There were some extraordinarily bizarre pieces of imagery, far from all of which seemed to me to work: "Santos spoke with passion; even, one might have said, with a moist warmth in those eyes which harboured the immortal remains of his friend and comrade Fernando Garrido.
Whatever the case, I came to the end of Murder in the Central Committee with the feeling that one of Pepe Carvalho's gourmand meals had been laid out appetizingly in front of me, then whipped away just as my fork was poised. Una gran parte de la novela es un viaje por el pasado de Carvalho, y gracias a esto, el autor acierta a profundizar muchos de los personajes.
Quite a different story; a mystery set in Spain, with communist party dialectics, murder, food.. I wasn't sure about the translation at times, but I think it's just the style of writing of the author and the translating from Spain to English, quite different languages. There was humour, an interesting mystery; noir style; complications from various factions, but ultimately a satisfying ending. I'm not sure if it's quite worth a 4, but more than a 3.
I will read more to find out more about Pepe C Quite a different story; a mystery set in Spain, with communist party dialectics, murder, food.. His fictional hero, however, the detective Pepe Carvalho, is an ex-communist who doesn't necessarily look kindly on the Communist Party.
This creates an interesting tension when he's hired to find out who murdered their General Secretary at a closed-door meeting where only communists were in attendance. At the same time, he shows how things changed once Franco was gone. Now they haggle over every weekend.
But I get sore when I see how inconsiderate certain comrades can be. Garrido survived Harguindey's slap on the shoulder. He told a joke to Helena Subirats that produced a roar of laughter more like an ovation.
Franco ruled from until his death in Many were killed or put in prison. Murder in the Central Committee was copyrighted in , a mere 6 yrs after Franco's death. It was published in I went to Madrid in where I found a generally convivial atmosphere, still celebrating Franco's demise 9 yrs later. In the story, the general secretary of the central committee is assassinated in the dark.
Fonseca is still remembered by communists as one of Franco's choice hangmen. What do you put the murder down to? It was international fascism. As the communists approach Carvalho to take the job of finding Garrida's murderer, they express concern about having interrupted his breakfast. Carvalho remembered him twenty-two years earlier, standing before the military court on a charge of rebellion.
Then Salvatella had declared that he recongized only the courts of the Republic, not the one trying him. Evidently disturbed by his lack of respect, the military judges increased the sentence demanded by the prosecutor.
Nonetheless, Carvalho is shown as somewhat antagonistic to them, possibly throwing the reader off to think that Carvalho's attitude is more of a deserved criticism than it turns out to be.
To find the murderer or to help you cover up the murder? But they told us you uncovered murders, not covered them up. I'm used to starring in black-and-white films, and now you're offering me a 70mm super-production with governments and police departments at the centre. But in Murder in the Central Committee he writes: "counter-cultural bookshops where the nazi Hermann Hesse lies next to a manual of some yogi from Freguenal de la Sierra.
In this way, Hesse attempted to work against Hitler's suppression of art and literature that protested Nazi ideology. Hesse's third wife was Jewish, and he had publicly expressed his opposition to anti-Semitism long before then.
Hesse was criticized for not condemning the Nazi party, but his failure to criticize or support any political idea stemmed from his "politics of detachment [ I don't think I can accept Montalban's harsh judgement here. Carvalho burns bks in his fireplace. Montalban always dedicates a little time to the bks chosen for burning. He tore the book in three, fanned the pages out so that they would catch fire more easily, and began to contrusct a building of twigs and branches on the ruins of one of Engels's most inadequate works.
He gets a threatening phone call. Or maybe Engels? Leave the dead in peace, particularly the ones you know. He got what was coming to him. You won't be warned again. Never mind, I'll drop the investigation. The murder has huge political implications that various sides are raptly rushing in to take advantage of. They already take it as proven that the communists are to blame.
ABC , holding a candle for banking capital and the royal household says "Settling of Accounts in the Central Committee". And what about political trend-setters around the palace? Well, Cambio 16 headlines with "The Struggle for Power". El Pais has a well-known ex-communist on its editorial staff and did a rational account of the events. But it could not refrain from morbid insinuations between the lines: "Growing Opposition to Garrido in the Party". Some people might not care much about how the media would handle such a case but I think it's central to how mind-control works in contemporary society.
That wd be news to you but it wd also be just the right touch to criminalize you from here to eternity. Leveder is a smart-ass communist who gives older communists a hard time.
He offers to spontaneoulsy translate serious writing into contemporary slang. We gotte get it together at the grass-roots. Street credibility. By the light of the small opaque lamp, he rediscovered the space of the room and the two or three objects he had had time to register: the shiny clothes-hanger, the cracked porcelain wash-basin.
He shot out his right arm in search of Gladys's body and found a strident, glass-shattering scream which pierced his chest like an ultrasonic alarm. He turned his head. Seated on a mattress, desperatly attempting to cover the flesh sticking through the slits of her blouse, a terrified teenager with sunken eyes continued to scream while looking at Carvalho as at some vermin.
Marea baja Dante Gebel. No problem. Visualizaciones Visualizaciones totales. Acciones Compartido. No hay notas en la diapositiva. Carvalho era detective y lo contrataron para que fuese a Madrid a investigar sobre el asesinato.
Para ello tuvo que desplazarse de Barcelona a Madrid, que no le gustaba. Chofer y ayudante de Carvalho en Madrid.
Mayorista de frutos tropicales. Otra de las ciudades mencionadas en la novela es Barcelona, de donde es Carvalho, sin duda el protagonista de la historia. Total de vistas 1. En Slideshare 0. Estudiante en hernan perez del pulgar. El arte de volar por ChristianFO6. La verdad sobre el caso savolta. A sangre y fuego.
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