The Wine-Dark Sea

Author

Leonardo Sciascia

Original Work

The Wine-Dark Sea

Translator

Avril Bardoni

Foreword / Afterword

Albert Mobilio

Language

English

Year

2000

Publisher

NYRB

Country

United States

Pages

201

ISBN

9780940322530

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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.— Google Books