Author : Anne Mullen
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1899293426
Inquisition and Inquiry by Anne Mullen Pdf
This study focuses on the narrative form which figured prominently in Sciascia's literary production in the 1970s and 1980s, that is, inchiesta, the non-fiction investigative essay, based principally on Manzoni's Storia della colonna infame [The Column of Infamy]. In his inchieste Sciascia investigates episodes in history, from the time of the Inquisition through to his own contemporary times, where intolerance and injustice outmatch human weakness and fear. This study considers Sciascia's commingling of detective and investigative writing, and his attempts at historiography. One striking feature of his narrative technique is his reliance on literature to interpret the past.