Thursday, March 10, 2011

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'Chump Change', Dan Fante

Chump Change
Dan Fante
Sakhalin
Publishers 1st edition, March 2011
Trad. Claudio Molinari Dassatti
Genre: Novel
240 pages
ISBN: 9788493805142

novels are landing in Spain in a discreet, almost noiselessly, but with the aim of give face before publishing phenomena that come with more artifice than quality. Dan Fante may not sound too since this is the first novel to be translated in Spain, but this guy who travels with cowboy hat and appearance of Truman Capote is the son of John Fante, one of the authors outstanding (and forgotten in life) of American letters.

Chump Change In Dan Fante pays tribute to a father who believed in sacrificing his talent loose service scripts for Hollywood and died thinking that his narrative does not end up to get the recognition he deserved. The Great John Fante, a loner, perhaps too selfish, irritable and anxious about your own life, appears in this novel as an outcast in a hospital bed, and no legs, consumed by diabetes, and dying while waiting for Bruno Dante (Dan Fante's own transcript), he took the final goodbye. But Bruno Dante, with suicidal tendencies and disturbing sexual orientation, can not forget the bad relationship with his father or control their own addiction to alcohol or aggressive impulses.

While life is slipping Jonathan Dante (John Fante), the child will still have the opportunity, nevertheless, tell you what, deep down, feel for him. And all I did not say is in this Chump Change, a harsh statement of intent that is slowly leaving room for other personal needs. This could be presented as a kind of Letter to Father wild style stark and Bukowski (paradoxically, in debt to the work of John Fante), although the fit and timing on a single charge.

The novel encapsulates the bitterness, disappointment, failure, hope, hope and, above all, the possibility, always present, things can change at any time while the clock is ticking fast. Chump Change is a brilliant novel of a writer who requires character and, hopefully, serve to do justice to the memory of John Fante and the work of his son Dan. Each one should be proud of another.

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