Afresco siciliano ou da beleza avistada: ensaio de filologia camilleriana

Abstract

Sicily, an island region in southern Italy, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, has a unique and perceptible geological and human history, which gives its people a strong sense of belonging. Not only to those who have always been there, but also to those who have migrated to other Italian cities or to other countries. In this work, we sought to draw parallels between the points of view of the narrative of the Sicilian-American writer Jerre Mangione in “Reunion in Sicily” (1950), translated into Italian in 1992, and that of the Sicilian storyteller Andrea Camilleri in “Excursion to Tíndari” (2000) and “The Glimpsed Beauty” (2017), when they tell the same event experienced in Sicily, in the 1940s, by both when they were young. Issues related to the Sicilian cultural identity of the writers are taken into account: Mangione, as son of Sicilian immigrants, born and raised in the United States, and Camilleri, while born and raised on the Italian island, based in Rome until his death in 2019.