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.
- ISBN10 0856355569
- ISBN13 9780856355561
- Publish Date 1 January 1995 (first published 10 March 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 July 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English