Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) was born in Racamulto, Sicily.
Starting in the 1950s, he established himself in Italy as a
novelist and essayist, and also as a controversial commentator on
political affairs. Among his many other books are Salt on the
Wound, a biography of a Sicilian town, The Council of
Egypt, an historical novel, and Todo Modo, a book in a
genre that Sciascia could be said to have invented: the
metaphysical mystery.
Carlin Romano is a critic at large for The Chronicle of Higher
Education, and a former president of the National Book Critics
Circle. He is also the author of America the Philosophical,
and divides his time between teaching at Ursinus College and the
University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.
Among Sicilian writers Leonardo Sciascia is supreme. His books are
both lucid and mysterious; they address complex, public subjects
with clarity and elegance; they move with the pace of thrillers,
and have the resonance of poetry.
- Philip Hensher, The Spectator
The accessibility and beauty of Sciascia's prose suggest he wanted
it to be an antidote to the silent complicity and self-deception
confronting both him and his heroes. When he wrote about crime, he
was also writing about truth, solitude and belonging.
- The Observer
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