The shows hooked millions of viewers with picture-postcard views of Baroque Sicilian towns.
'After 30 years in the theater as a director, dialogue for me becomes fundamental in the structure of the novel,' Camilleri told The Associated Press in an interview in his Rome apartment in 2009.
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Indeed, TV adaptations of the Montalbano books used generous chunks of dialogue straight out of the printed pages, so smooth was the transition from book to screen. He affectionately borrowed from the dialect of his Sicilian youth, which Camilleri saw as better lending itself to expressing characters' emotions.Ĭamilleri employed a brilliant ear for dialogue, drawing on his many years as a theater, radio and TV director and scriptwriter before his literary career took off when he was approaching old age.
Referring to how his character would brusquely answer his phone, Zingaretti added that 'every time I will say, even alone, in my head, 'Montalbano sono' (it's Montalbano), wherever you went, you will smile, maybe smoking a cigarette and winking at me in a sign of understanding, just like the last time we saw each other,' in Sicily.Ĭamilleri's position at the top of the book sales charts in Italy - he often had several books high in the rankings in the same week - was even more remarkable because the author sprinkled many of his works with words that many Italians aren't familiar with. Andrea Camilleri reads a Luigi Priandello novel at Rome's Piccolo Eliseo theatre, 2001
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