Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
un time it was said that if Hemingway had been born in Sofia no one would have read it. But the same could be said of Camilleri, if he had been born in Biella or Abbiategrasso or Thiene.
Sicily is a literary land. Italian literature in the unitary age is almost all Sicilian: Verga, De Roberto, Capuana, Pirandello, and in the post-war period Brancati, Sciascia, Vittorini, Bufalino, Consolo, Tomasi di Lampedusa… Then everyone has their own opinions.
The Italian theater is still stuck in Pirandello: anyone who loves theater has seen at least three times I six characters, The Cap with Rattles, The Mountain Giants; by now we know well that nothing is as it seems, everyone wears a mask, bourgeois conventions count more than reality. In short, Pirandello is, I won’t say dated, but abused; I find that Sciascia’s voice arrives fresher, less listened to.
Then there are the women. Sicily is very important in the work of Dacia Maraini, daughter of the noblewoman Topazia Alliata, and author of The long life of Marianna Ucrìa, which is set on the island – in particular in Bagheria. The success of the prodigious Lions of Sicily Of Stephanie Auci.
“Sicilian Castling” by Costanza DiQuattro (Baldini+Castoldi).
I really appreciate another author, Costanza DiQuattrowho also knows how to write about theatre, and has now published by Baldini+Castoldi Sicilian castling. A novel all dialogues, tight just like a play, set in the Baroque charm of Ibla, and in particular in that secular temple that was once the pharmacy in the villages.
But novels are not told; we read: «Since it had happened, no one had talked about the suicide inside the club. Everyone had removed it, attributing it to the boy’s emotional instability alone. Those present had thus cleared their conscience and no one, Romeo in the lead, had any interest in asking useless questions. The baron pursed his lips in an ostentatious pout…».
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