Geschändete Natur, verdorbene Menschheit. Der italienische Eco-Thriller zwischen fiktionalem Krimi und umweltpolitischem Engagement

In this contribution to the book Narrative der Deponie the main intention is to follow a thematic-string which concerns “social" disasters resulting from human groups fighting over territory and polluting the environment. In the last years a lot of Italian writers have published books on Ecothriller and Mafia/Thriller Themes: Carlo Lucarelli, who is also author of some TV Programs as “Blu Notte” wrote a short novel of about 100 pages, Navi a perdere (Ships to be lost), on the problem of the draining away of toxic waste material in the sea, showing how is it possible to hide the truth under the surface of hypocrisy; also Massimo Carlotto has published with Francesco Abate the novel L’albero dei microchip (The microchip tree), which concerns a travel in the obscure world of the international criminality as a kind of enquiry-book. Francesco Abate has connected the military activity in the largest experimental training area for military forces in Europe, Perdas de Fogu (Sardegna- Italy), that is also a Secret Military Zone, with the increasing of leukemic pathologies and cancer in this part of Italy. These are only some of the examples brought into the analysis of the present essay.