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- Author: Leonardo Sciascia
- Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 0940322536
- ISBN-13: 9780940322530
- Format: 13.1 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intelligence with a streetfighter's intransigent poise. Sciascia was particularly admired for his short stories, and The Wine-Dark Sea offers what he considered his best work in the genre: thirteen spare and trenchant miniatures that range in subject from village idiots to mafia dons, marital spats to American dreams. Here, in unforgettable form, Sciascia examines the contradictions--sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both--of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life.
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- Author: Leonardo Sciascia
- Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 0940322536
- ISBN-13: 9780940322530
- Format: 13.1 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intelligence with a streetfighter's intransigent poise. Sciascia was particularly admired for his short stories, and The Wine-Dark Sea offers what he considered his best work in the genre: thirteen spare and trenchant miniatures that range in subject from village idiots to mafia dons, marital spats to American dreams. Here, in unforgettable form, Sciascia examines the contradictions--sometimes comic, sometimes deadly, and sometimes both--of Sicily's turbulent history and day-to-day life.
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