Leonardo Sciascia’s Spanish Sicily

Abstract

Having influenced his intellectual growth since the outbreak of the Civil War, Spanish culture became a mirror through which Leonardo Sciascia would reread his Sicilian origins. In the various historical, cultural and literary investigations that he carried out about the island, therefore, he constantly mentions the Iberian dimension. Of that prolific process of assimilation, the present study aims to illustrate the most significant moments which have been partially neglected by critics. Finally, following Eugenio d’Ors’s thesis, this “Mediterranean dialogue” will be synthetized through a historical-artistic category which is extremely coherent with the idea outlined so far of “Spain as a metaphor”: the Baroque.