Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali collects the translations of three writings that have already appeared in English-speaking scientific journals - L'onore, il qualunquismo e l'essenzialismo ne L'antimonio di Sciascia, Sciascia e La scomparsa di Majorana and De L'Affaire Moro e della (ri)scrittura della storia - as well as an in-depth introduction that provides an overview of the author's research results on Sciascia - from which a much more conservative Sciascia than is commonly believed is revealed - as well as an analysis of Sciascia's poetics (centred on the public self-image of the "spoiler"). The essay ends with a concluding chapter where the last decade of Sciascia's career is examined (the period after L'Affaire Moro and the participation of the Sicilian writer in the Moro Commission) during which the author publishes various collections of essays - such as La strega e il capitano, 1912+1, Una storia semplice - and traces an essay on Telesio Interlandi, ideologue of the discriminatory legislation of 1938.
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Book Title
Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali
Authors
Joseph Francese
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
180
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-144-7
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-141-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-144-7
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-146-1
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-629-0
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919