The great writer Leonardo Sciascia , a notorious left-wing intellectual and supporter of the PCI, from whom he left to preserve his independence, left vital and literary testimony of his unbridled denunciation of political corruption and mafia violence. This earned him, not without shock, being one of the critical consciences in Italy. When asked by a journalist about the "Sicilianization" of his work, Sciascia explained that the island contained a metaphor for a world characterized by the preeminence of private interests. For their Sicilian countrymen, the family was the State and the kinship prevailed greatly having its explicit

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