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Leonardo Sciascia ( Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo ʃˈʃaʃʃa] ⓘ; 8 January 1921 – 20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician.
Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, 8 gennaio 1921 – Palermo, 20 novembre 1989) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, saggista, drammaturgo, poeta, politico e critico d'arte italiano. Sciascia è considerato una delle più grandi figure letterarie del Novecento italiano ed europeo.
Apr 8, 2024 · Leonardo Sciascia (born January 8, 1921, Racalmuto, near Agrigento, Italy—died November 20, 1989, Palermo) was an Italian writer noted for his metaphysical examinations of political corruption and arbitrary power. Sciascia studied at the Magistrale Institute in Caltanissetta.
Leonardo Sciascia has 212 books on Goodreads with 102977 ratings. Leonardo Sciascia’s most popular book is Il giorno della civetta.
Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) 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.
Leonardo Sciascia. (1921—1989) Quick Reference. (1921–89) Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist, city councillor for Palermo (1975–7), and Radical MP (1979). Almost all his writings are concerned with his native Sicily and aim through historical enquiry ... From: Sciascia, Leonardo in The Oxford Companion to English Literature »
Nov 21, 1989 · Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian novelist and essayist whose work explored political corruption and crime in his native Sicily, died of a heart attack yesterday at his home in Palermo.
76 quotes from Leonardo Sciascia: '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.', 'Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.', and 'Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north ...
Scrittori e cose della Sicilia (1970). E interviene su temi di scottante attualità, come mafia e terrorismo, e sui problemi e le distorsioni della giustizia: A futura memoria (se la memoria ha un futuro) raccoglie nel 1989 gli scritti più significativi.
Leonardo Sciascia became the godfather of Paolo, Salvatore's firstborn child. In 1949 the Salvatore Sciascia publishing house launched a bimonthly literary magazine, Gal-leria. Starting with the fourth issue, Leonardo Scia-scia became the director of the magazine, a position he retained until 1959.15 As director of Galleria^ Leonardo Sciascia ...
