O contraponto existencial entre Leonardo Sciascia e suas personagens Candido e Calogero

Abstract

The sicilian author Leonardo Sciascia is known by the italian critics as the man who lives for his art: the literature. He made it a way to revel struggles faced by Southern Italians. He himself, a miners’s son an grandson, witnessed what thirst of power could do to a country, a city. His narratives tell us about his fellow countrymen as characters “awaiting for an author” who could make them alive o literary pages. In the biography Il Maestro de Regalpetra, Collura wrote that his romances and tales show his existence. Based on it, this article aims to study two major Sciascian characters: Candido, from Candido ovvero un sogno fatto in Sicilia; and Calogero, from L’antimonio, focusing the existencial counterpoint between them and the writer Leonardo Sciascia.