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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015. Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She’s taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked, accusing him of ‘digging a hole in the Dole’. And his drinking buddies at Jips, the Afro-Cuban bar in Les Halles, pour scorn on Black Bazaar, the journal he keeps to log his sorrows. There are days when only the Arab in the corner shop has a kind word; while at night his dreams are stalked by the cannibal pygmies of Gabon. Then again, Buttologist wears no ordinary uppers. He has style, bags of it (suitcases of crocodile and anaconda Westons, to be precise). He’s a dandy from the Bacongo district of Brazzaville – AKA a sapeur or member of the Society of Ambience-makers and People of Elegance. But is flaunting sartorial chic against tough times enough for Buttologist to cut it in the City of Light?

Detenuto aggredisce agente Polizia penitenziaria nel carcere di Paola.

Un assistente capo della Polizia penitenziaria è stato aggredito da un detenuto nella casa circondariale di Paola dove, al 30 settembre, erano ristretti circa 219 detenuti la metà dei quali stranieri. Lo rendono noto Giovanni Battista Durante, segretario generale aggiunto del Sappe e Damiano Bellucci, segretario nazionale.

Secondo la ricostruzione, un detenuto di origine albanese, mentre si…