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Leonardo SciasciaLeonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Agrigento 1921 - Palermo 1989) was an Italian writer. Leonardo Sciascia, (pronounced sharshar), was a prominent Italian writer and politician, serving his beloved Sicily as a councillor, deputy in the national assembly and then in the Europena parliament. Trained as a lawyer, it was only later in life that he devoted himself to writing about Sicily and the Mafia. Amongst many of the books which he wrote are The Day of the Owl, Equal Danger and the Moro Affair, which was an investigation into the kidnapping and the eventual assassination by Italy's Premier, Aldo Moro. His work is intricate and displays a longing for justice within Italy's society, attempting to show how corrupt it's society had become and still is. His linking of politicians, intrigue, and the Mafia gave him a high profile, which was very much at odds with his private self. This accumulated in becoming widely disliked for his criticism of Guilio Andreotti, then Prime Minster, for his lack of action towards freeing Moro and answering the demands of the Red Brigade. The best of his books, shows that, as in real life, there is rarely a happy ending and that there is rarely justice for the ordinary man. Prime examples of this are Equal Danger (Il Contesto), where the Police's best detective is drafted to Sicily to investigate a spate of murders of judges. Focussing on the inability of authorities to handle such investigation into the corruptions, Sciascia's hero is finally thwarted. Sciascia offered a hope that there was another way for Italy and especially Sicily, away from the corruption. Sciascia, Leonardo Sciascia, Leonardo Sciascia, Leonardo
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