La storia che non cambia. La Sicilia di Leonardo Sciascia

Abstract

In the essays, articles, interviews and occasional writings, written from the 60s
to the 80s, a substantially constant picture emerges of what Sciascia says about
his region, its identity, the history that made it what it is. At the beginning of the
period under review there seems to be some optimism, at least, about the
possibility of achieving positive change. Nevertheless, the writer substantially
maintains the image of a negative situation unchanged over the centuries and
which in the mid-60s casts its shadows over the present. Despite the unease
occasionally expressed for the fact that Sicilian identity has remained unaltered
for centuries, the writer accepts it, sometimes resorting to cliché.