1980
Por David Peace
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«David Peace es uno de los novelistas más relevantes, salvajes y geniales que han surgido del Reino Unido en las últimas tres décadas. Artífice de una obra que disecciona la cultura de su país durante las traumáticas décadas de los 70 y los 80, ha utilizado el género criminal, entre otros, para construir un monumental y esencial comentario sobre la política y la sociedad británica y sobre la cultura occidental en general.» Javier Calvo
«Monta este David Peace un puzzle sentimental, palabra a palabra, frase a frase, y os aseguro que cada página leída os pedirá otra más como si en vez de lectura fuese una montaña de perico lo que estuvieseis consumiendo. Peace es la droga dura del 'noir'. No apto para niñitos» Marga Nelken
Diciembre de 1980. El Destripador ha matado ya a trece mujeres. Ante la inefectividad de la policía de West Yorkshire, el Ministerio del Interior crea una superbrigada para asesorarla, pero en realidad también para vigilarla. Peter Hunter, comisario jefe del Gran Manchester, es enviado a Leeds al frente de un nuevo equipo de investigadores. 1980 confirma el pulso y la originalidad narrativa de David Peace. Esta tercera novela del Red Riding Quartet prosigue su búsqueda a través de una trama infernal cada vez más peligrosamente próxima a su resolución…
David Peace
David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. He lives in Japan.
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- Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5These books (1974. 1977, 1980, and 1983) collectively constitute The Red Riding Hood Quartet, a series of crime novels based on the Yorkshire Ripper murders. I had read the first in the series, Nineteen Seventy-four last year, and thought it would be a simple matter to pick up with Nineteen Seventy-seven (which BTW is on the 1001 list) and proceed. However, I soon determined that I needed to reread Nineteen Seventy-four, which I did, and when I finished Nineteen Seventy-seven, I had to immediately go onto Nineteen Eighty and then Nineteen Eighty-three. I can't remember when I've read so many books by the same author in such a concentrated amount of time. (I devoured these over several days). In my view, these four books can only be read as one novel.The first book in the series is narrated by a novice crime reporter, and concerned the solving of a series of child murders, some of which occurred several years before 1974, when the book is set. It is grim and bleak, and about terrible people doing terrible things. In this book, we are introduced to some of the corrupt policemen who are the core of this series.Nineteen Seventy-seven is narrated by Jack Whitehead, a senior crime reporter who had made an appearance in the first book as the arrogant, wisecracking rival of the narrator in the first book. Now that we are in his mind, we can see that he is a psychological wreck, with self-induced demons haunting him.Whitehead's sections alternate with sections narrated by Bobby Fraser, a policeman who made a brief but important appearance in the first book. In that book, he was a rookie, and was ethical with a sense of fair play. Three years later, he is unrecognizable--corrupt and violent.In Nineteen Seventy-seven the Ripper murders begin, but are not solved. As in Nineteen Seventy-four, the narrative flows freely back and forth in time, and is for the most part in stream of consciousness. It is again a novel without a hero, full of terrible people.In Nineteen Eighty the murders continue, and we meet the first character we can like. Peter Hunter, an investigator from another district, is sent to review the Ripper investigation to determine whether the failure to solve the case is due to incompetence, or to some clue that has been overlooked. Again the narrative travels loosely back and forth in time, and more and more of the rampant police corruption becomes known to the reader.Each of these first three novels ends with a huge bang, although we sometimes are not entirely sure what actually happened. It is not until the ensuing book that we are entirely aware of what happened, and the ramifications it has for the characters and the investigation.Nineteen Eight-three is narrated from the pov of three characters. John Piggot, a sleazy solicitor who is trying to prove that the man convicted of the child murders in the first book was framed, narrates his sections in the first person. BJ, a "rent boy" who has made appearances in the first three novels, narrates his sections, referring to himself in the second person. The final sections are told from the point of view of a corrupt police official.Nineteen Eight-three winds and unwinds, not unlike a symphonic exposition, all the threads begun in the first novel. It shifts back and forth in time over nearly twenty years. As in the first three novels, it also ends with a bang, and again we are not quite sure of all of the ramifications. Unfortunately, there will be no succeeding books to enlighten us.These four novels are amazing. They are not, however, for everyone. There are obscenties on every page. Brutality and violence abound, sometimes graphicly described. Everyone is corrupt. The novels are bleak, gritty, cynical and despairing. If this description doesn't bother you, I highly recommend these books. Read as one, they are a masterpiece.
- Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5I think this was my favourite of the Red Riding quartet. The narrative is based around Peter Hunter, a Manchester officer brought in to the West Yorkshire force to review the investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper. Hunter is a great character, the first police officer within the series you think you can trust. The book is based mainly around the hunt for the Ripper, which was based on real facts and I think because it was based around a real murder (and one that affected me strongly in my memory as I was only about 8 years' old at the time) it was intriguing. The book goes further into the corruption in the West Yorkshire police and is very believable.