Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, 8 January 1921 - Palermo, 20 November 1989) was a writer, journalist, essayist, politician, poet and Italian playwright.
A free and unconventional spirit, a very lucid and merciless critic of our time, Sciascia is one of the great figures of the Italian and European twentieth century. Anxious to know the contradictions of his land and humanity, he united a sense of pessimistic justice and always disappointed, but never renounces the use of human reason as an enlightenment matrix, to implement this project of his. The influence of Luigi Pirandello's cognitive relativism can instead be attributed to humor and the difficulty of reaching a conclusion that its protagonists encounter: reality is not always observable in an objective manner, and often it is an inextricable set of truth and lies.
A free and unconventional spirit, a very lucid and merciless critic of our time, Sciascia is one of the great figures of the Italian and European twentieth century. Anxious to know the contradictions of his land and humanity, he united a sense of pessimistic justice and always disappointed, but never renounces the use of human reason as an enlightenment matrix, to implement this project of his. The influence of Luigi Pirandello's cognitive relativism can instead be attributed to humor and the difficulty of reaching a conclusion that its protagonists encounter: reality is not always observable in an objective manner, and often it is an inextricable set of truth and lies.
