Literature that Goes Out of Line: Cocaine that Comes in and Out of Books

El Pais

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

The first four pages of Zero Zero Zero (Anagram, 2014), Roberto Saviano’s chronicle of how cocaine governs the global economy from the crime side and colonizes almost every sphere of human experience. In them Saviano recites a very long list, almost a psalm, of people who can consume coca in the environment of any one of us, a teacher, your favorite writer, the neighbor, the head of section, your oncologist, someone in the family, who is, really…