L'Illuminismo senza lumi di Leonardo Sciascia

Abstract

This work of political and cultural history highlights the context of the early sixties in which Leonardo Sciascia wrote The Council of Egypt, in particular the clear position and criticism of the writer in charge of the Sicilian region led by Silvio Milazzo and the publication de The Gattopardo of Tomasi di Lampedusa. Moreover, here the relationship between Sciascia and the new progressive Sicilian historiography of those years is rebuilt, its initial support and then abandonment; opting for a metaphorical historical paradigm of immobility and defeat.