Ellroy is a great figure in American crime novel, but here sinuous dintrigue point: Curse is an autobiographical text that unveils lobsession of the author for the fairer sex, starting with his mother of course (including assassination, when Ellroy was still a child, feed the plot of the famous Black Dahlia). Then come the women lont accompanied him and his collection of psychological disorders. The author gives us indeed his impulses, his doubts and his dreams to the state gross, and the book becomes immersed in the broth of his sexual and neurotic torments. And sometimes shamefully, we are surprised to understand, fearing to read page after page of things we thought we could keep fled forever. Surprisingly, when Ellroy book we frankly rotten fruits of his passions, the male reader can help but find a little sy. Scary as a literary controlled skid. But above all so real.
