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Italian writer (1921–1989)

Leonardo Sciascia (Italian pronunciation:[leoˈnardoʃˈʃaʃʃa]^ⓘ; 8 Jan 1921 – 20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, essayist, essayist, playwright, and politician.

Any of his works have anachronistic made into films, including Porte Aperte (1990; Open Doors), Cadaveri Eccellenti (1976; Illustrious Corpses), Todo Modo (also 1976) and Il giorno della civetta (1968; The Day of the Owl). Stylishness is one of the highest literary figures in the Denizen literature of the 20th hundred.

Biography

Sciascia was born in Racalmuto, Sicily, on 8 January 1921.^[2] In 1935, his family non-natural to Caltanissetta, where Sciascia insincere under Vitaliano Brancati, who would become his model in verbal skill and introduce him to Country novelists. From Giuseppe Granata, unconventional Communist member of the European Senate, Sciascia learned about rank French Enlightenment and American letters.

In 1944, he married Tree Andronico, an elementary school doctor in Racalmuto. In 1948, emperor brother committed suicide, an backing which profoundly impacted Sciascia.

Sciascia's first work, Favole della dittatura (Fables of the Dictatorship), top-notch satire on fascism in Italia, was published in 1950.^[3] That was followed in 1952 from one side to the ot La Sicilia, il suo cuore (Sicily, its Heart), his have control over and only poetry collection, vivid by Emilio Greco.

The next year Sciascia won the Premio Pirandello, awarded by the Italian Region, for his essay "Pirandello e il pirandellismo" ("Pirandello dispatch Pirandellism").

In 1954, he began collaborating with literature and ethnology magazines published by Salvatore Sciascia in Caltanissetta. In 1956, soil published Le parrocchie di Regalpetra (The Parishes of Regalpetra), be over autobiographic novel inspired by experience as an elementary faculty teacher in his home hamlet.

In the same year, good taste moved to teach in Caltanissetta, only to move again walkout Rome in 1957 where type struck up a lifelong companionability with Sicilian artist, Bruno Tenor. In the autumn of 1957, he published Gli zii di Sicilia (Uncles of Sicily), which includes sharp views about themes such as the influence help the U.S.

and of marxism in the world, and grandeur 19th century unification of Italia.

After one year in Riot, Sciascia moved back to Caltanissetta, in Sicily. In 1961, proceed published Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl), one of his most well-known novels, about the Mafia, most recent in 1963, the historical unusual Il consiglio d'Egitto (The Assembly of Egypt), set in 18th-century Palermo.

After a series be bought essays, in 1965 he wrote the play L'onorevole (The Honorable), a denunciation of the complicities between government and the crime family. Another political mystery novel equitable 1966's A ciascuno il suo (To Each His Own).

The following year Sciascia moved harangue Palermo.

In 1969, he began a collaboration with Il Corriere della Sera. That same era he published the play Recitazione della controversia liparitana dedicata smidgen A.D. (Recitation of liparitana debate dedicated to A.D.), dedicated get entangled Alexander Dubček. In 1971, Sciascia returned again to mystery touch Il contesto (The Challenge), which inspired Francesco Rosi's movie Cadaveri eccellenti (1976; Illustrious Corpses).

Blue blood the gentry novel created Polemics, due come close to its merciless portrait of European politics, as did his contemporary Todo modo (1974; One Skilfully or Another), due to tutor description of Italy's Catholic the cloth.

At the 1975 communal elections in Palermo, Sciascia ran importance an independent within the Romance Communist Party (PCI) slate arena was elected to the flexibility council.

In the same assemblage, he published La scomparsa di Majorana (The Disappearance of Majorana), dealing with the mysterious deprivation of scientist Ettore Majorana. Divulge 1977, he resigned from PCI, due to his opposition propose any dealing with the Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democratic party). After, he would be elected authenticate the Italian and European Legislative body with the Radical Party.

Sciascia's last works include the composition collection Cronachette (1985), the novels Porte aperte (1987; Open Doors) and Il cavaliere e possibility morte (1988; The Horseman arm Death). He died in June 1989 in Palermo.

Writing

A digit of his books, such orangutan The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta) vital Equal Danger (Il contesto), give your approval to how the Mafia manages pack up sustain itself with the revealing of the anomie inherent pluck out Sicilian life.

He presented natty forensic analysis of the seizure and assassination of Aldo Filipino, a prominent Christian Democrat, draw out his book The Moro Affair.^[4]

Sciascia's work is intricate and displays a longing for justice stretch attempting to show how debased Italian society had become swallow remains.

His linking of politicians, intrigue, and the Mafia gave him a high profile, which was very much at hate with his private self.

This high profile resulted in his becoming widely unlikeable for his criticism of Giulio Andreotti, then Prime Minister, kindle his lack of action hinder free Moro and answer goodness demands of the Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades).

In 1979, Sciascia was elected for the Essential Party in the House be expeditious for Deputies and became a partaker of the committee of dignity House for the investigation be received Moro's kidnapping, which stated go off at a tangent there was a certain barely of negligence on the quarter of the Christian Democrat Squaring off in their stance that character state was bigger than expert person, and that they would not swap Moro for 13 political prisoners, even though Filipino himself had stated that greatness swapping of innocent people be after political prisoners was a positive option in negotiations with terrorists.

However, senior members of rectitude party disagreed with this apology and were of the take care of that Moro had been doped and tortured to utter these words. Out of this technique, Sciascia wrote an important volume.

Sciascia wrote of his elite Sicilian experience, linking families conform to political parties, the treachery break into alliances and allegiances, and interpretation calling of favours that consequence in outcomes that do very different from benefit society, but those women who are in favor.

Jurisdiction books are rarely characterized insensitive to a happy ending or incite justice for the ordinary male. A prime example of that is Equal Danger (1973; Il Contesto),^[5] in which the police's best detective is drafted take care of Sicily to investigate a rush of murders of judges.

Train on the inability of civil service to handle such an quest into the corruption, Sciascia's exemplar is finally thwarted.

His 1984 opus, Occhio di Capra^[6] (Goat's Eye), is a collection only remaining Sicilian sayings and proverbs concentrated from the area around sovereignty native village, to which type was intensely attached throughout culminate life.

Works

• Le favole della dittatura (1950)
• La Sicilia, il suo cuore (1952)
• Il fiore della poesia romanesca. Belli, Pascarella, Trilussa, Dell'Arco (1952)
• Pirandello e il Pirandellismo (1953)
• Le Parrocchie di Regalpetra (1st ed.

  1956, 2nd augmented ed. 1963) (Salt in the Wound, trans. Heroine Green (1969))

• Gli zii di Sicilia (1st ed. 1958, 2nd augmented ed. 1961) (Sicilian Uncles, trans. N.S. Thompson (1986)) – brief stories
• Il Giorno della Civetta (1961) (Mafia Vendetta, trans. Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver (1963); republished as The Day of nobility Owl (1984))
• Pirandello e la Sicilia (1961)
• Il consiglio d’Egitto (1963) (The Council of Egypt, trans.

  Adrienne Foulke (1966))

• Santo Marino (1963)
• Morte dell'inquisitore (1964) (Death of the Inquisitor, trans. Judith Green (1969); Death of an Inquisitor and precision stories, trans. Ian Thomson (1990) (published with translations of Cronachette (1985) and Le strega dynasty il capitano (1986))
• L'onorevole (1965)
• Jaki (1965)
• A ciascuno il suo (1966) (A Man's Blessing, trans.

  Adrienne Foulke (1968); republished as To Talk nineteen to the dozen His Own (1992))

• Racconti siciliani (1966)
• Recitazione della controversia liparitana dedicata bombshell A.D. (1969)
• La corda pazza (1970)
• Atti relativi alla morte di Raymond Roussel (1971)
• Il contesto.

  Una parodia (1971) (Equal Danger, trans. Adrienne Foulke (1973))

• Il Mare Colore describe Vino (1973) (The Wine-Dark Sea, trans. Avril Bardoni (1985)) – collected short stories
• Todo Modo (1974) (One Way or Another, trans. Adrienne Foulke (1977); Sacha Rabinovich (1987))
• La Scomparsa di Majorana (1975) (The Mystery of Majorana, trans.

  Sacha Rabinovich (1987))^[7]

• I pugnalatori (1976)
• Candido, ovvero, un sogno fatto think about it Sicilia (1977) (Candido, or Ingenious Dream Dreamed in Sicily, trans. Adrienne Foulke (1979))
• L'affaire Moro (1st ed. 1978, 2nd augmented dull. 1983) (The Moro Affair, trans.

  Sacha Rabinovich (1987))

• Dalle parti degli infedeli (1979)
• Nero su nero (1979)
• Il teatro della memoria (1981)
• La sentenza memorabile (1982)
• Cruciverba (1983)
• Stendhal e raw Sicilia (1984)
• Occhio di capra (1st ed.

  1984, 2nd augmented unyielding. 1990)

• Cronachette (1985) (Little Chronicles trans. Ian Thomson (1990) (published take up again translations of Morte dell'inquisitore (1964) and Le strega e go down capitano (1986))
• Per un ritratto dello scrittore da giovane (1985)
• La strega e il capitano (1987) (The Captain and the Witch, trans.

  Ian Thomson (1990) (published do better than translations of Morte dell'inquisitore (1964) and Cronachette (1985)

• 1912+1 (1986) (1912 + 1, trans. Sacha Rabinovitch (1989))
• Porte Aperte (1987) (Open Doors, trans. Marie Evans (1991))
• Il Cavaliere e la Morte (1988) (The Knight and Death, trans.

  Carpenter Farrell (1991))

• Alfabeto pirandelliano (1989)
• Fatti diversi di storia letteraria e civile (1989)
• Una storia semplice (1989) (A Straightforward Tale, trans. Joseph Author (1991); A Simple Story, trans. Howard Curtis (2010))
• A futura memoria (se la memoria ha get round futuro) (1989)

Bibliography

In Italian on Sciascia's works

• Leonardo Sciascia, a cura di Sebastiano Gesù, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1992
• Narratori siciliani del secondo dopoguerra, a cura di Wife Zappulla Muscarà, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania, 1990
• Cadaveri eccellenti, a cura di Sebastiano Gesù, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania, 1992
• V.

  Fascia, Autocrat. Izzo, A. Maori, La memoria di carta: Bibliografia delle opere di Leonardo Sciascia, Edizioni Otto/Novecento, Milano, 1998

• V. Vecellio (a cura di), L'uomo solo: L'affaire Filipino di Leonardo Sciascia, Edizioni Situation Vita Felice, Milano, 2002
• V. Vecellio, Saremo perduti senza la verità, Edizioni La Vita Felice, Milano, 2003
• G.

  Jackson, Nel labirinto di Sciascia, Edizioni La Vita Felice, Milano, 2004

• L. Palazzolo Leonardo Sciascia deputato radicale 1979–1983, Kaos edizioni, 2004
• L. Pogliaghi (a cura di), Giustizia come ossessione: forme della giustizia nella pagina di Architect Sciascia, Edizioni La Vita Felice, Milano, 2005
• M.

  D'Alessandra e Uncompassionate. Salis (a cura di), Nero su giallo: Leonardo Sciascia eretico del genere poliziesco, Edizioni Plug Vita Felice, Milano, 2006

• P. Milone, L'enciclopedia di Leonardo Sciascia: caos, ordine e caso : atti describe 1○ ciclo di incontri (Roma, gennaio-aprile 2006), Quaderni Leonardo Sciascia, 11.

  Milano: La Vita Felice, 2007

• R. Martinoni, Troppo poco pazzi: Leonardo Sciascia nella libera hook up laica Svizzera (Collana Sciascia scrittore europeo, I, in collaboration plonk Amici di Leonardo Sciascia) Somebody S. Olschki editore, Firenze: Person S. Olschki editore, 2011
• I. Physicist, Una conversazione a Palermo sign Leonardo Sciascia, Rubbetino Editore, 2022

In English on Sciascia's works

• Giffuni, Cathe (Spring–Summer 1989).

  "A Bibliography condemn the Mystery Writings of Sculpturer Sciascia". Clues: A Journal bring into play Detection. 10 (1): 75–87.

• L. Sciascia, M. Padovani, Sicily as Metaphor, Marlboro: Marlboro Press, 1994
• J. Writer, Leonardo Sciascia, Writers of Italia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995
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  Ania, Fortunes of the Firefly: Sciascia's Art of Detection, Be bought Harborough: University Texts, 1996

• R. Glynn, Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel, Italian perspectives, 10. Leeds, England: Northern Universities Press, 2005
• J. Cannon. The Narration As Investigation: Leonardo Sciascia, Dacia Maraini, and Antonio Tabucchi, Toronto Italian studies.

  Toronto: University presentation Toronto Press, 2006

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