Leonardo Sciascia

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born

January 08, 1921 in Racalmuto, Sicily, Italy

died

November 20, 1989

gender

male

website

http://www.amicisciascia.it/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Politics

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Leonardo Sciascia wrote of his unique Sicilian experience, linking families with political parties, the treachery of alliances and allegiances and the calling of favours that resort in outcomes that are not for the benefit of society, but of those individuals who are in favour.
Sciascia perhaps, in the end, wanted to prove that the corruption that was and is endemic in Italian society helps only those who are part of the secret societies and loyalties and the political classes.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 1,872 ratings · 171 reviews · 75 distinct works

	The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia, George Scialabba (Introduction), Archibald Colquhoun (Translation) 3.70 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 1961 — 18 editions	My rating:
	To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia, Adrienne Foulke (Translator), W.S. De Piero (Introduction) 3.79 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1966 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Una storia semplice 3.94 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia, Albert Mobilio (Introduction), Avril Bardoni (Translation) 3.82 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia, Adrienne Foulke (Translator), Carlin Romano (Introduction) 3.84 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1971 — 12 editions	My rating:
	La scomparsa di Majorana 3.94 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Moro Affair (New York Review Books Classics) by Leonardo Sciascia, Sacha Rabinovitch (Translator), Peter Robb (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1978 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Todo Modo 3.76 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1974 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Candido 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1977 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Il Consiglio d'Egitto 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.”
― Leonardo Sciascia

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“Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl

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“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred metres, I think it was, every year...The palm tree line...I call it the coffee line, the strong black coffee line...It's rising like mercury in a thermometer, this palm tree line, this strong coffee line, this scandal line, rising up throughout Italy and already passed Rome...”
― Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl

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