Dal Soldato Seis all’Antimonio: Leonardo Sciascia e la Guerra civile spagnola
From Soldier Seis To Antimony: Leonardo Sciascia and the Spanish Civil War

Summary/Abstract: The Spanish Civil War played a revealing role in Leonardo Sciascia’s ideological growth as well as in other young intellectuals’ development during the fascist regime. Moreover, the memories of that war guided the writer in his journeys to Spain from the 1950s onwards and inspired not only various news reports, but also two short stories, Il soldato Seis and L’antimonio. Although these stories are not travel chronicles, they show clear affinities with travel literature and their analysis from this perspective can shed light on the peculiarities of Sciascia’s Spanish imagery – in contrast to the exotic stereotypes that have affected the Iberian Peninsula for centuries – and on how Spanish culture greatly contributed to create the writer’s poetics.

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