La storia che non cambia. La Sicilia di Leonardo Sciascia

Abstract

Reading essays, articles, interviews and occasional writings, written between the 60s and the 80s, a substantially constant picture is drawn of what Sciascia says about his region, its identity, the history that made it as it is. At the beginning of the period under review, at least in part, there seems to be some optimism about the possibility of achieving positive change. In any case, the writer only made minor changes to the image of a negative condition unaltered through the centuries, which in the face of the disappointments for the present, in turn extends the shadows of him even at the moment lived, already in the mid-60s. Despite the perplexities sometimes declared as to the fact that the Sicilian identity has been able to remain unchanged for centuries, the writer accepts it and sometimes gives in to some clichés.

Keywords

• history
• identity
• Sicily