Il “mio” Leonardo Sciascia

Abstract

The intellectual represents nothing if he does not represent the individual and his freedom, if he does not maintain the very principle of individuality, the right to doubt and criticism, the sense of true and false, the rejection of lies, the obsessive search for truth at any cost. Such is the hallmark of Leonardo Sciascia: he would rather lose readers than deceive them. Like few others in the century we have left behind us, Sciascia played an eminently civil and social function, in solidarity, by actively participating in the rights of all and primarily of the offended and humiliated, of those who are silent and silenced, most easily deceived and misled. This was Sciascia in his life, and through his books, his writings, he continues to be.

Keywords

• justice
• Radical Party
• The Day of the Owl
• Equal Danger