Leonardo Sciascia

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

— Leonardo Sciascia

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime!…

— Leonardo Sciascia

“…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at…

— Leonardo Sciascia

“il brigadiere cominciò a fare il suo lavoro di osservazione, in funzione del rapporto scritto che gli toccava poi fare: compito piuttosto…

— Leonardo Sciascia

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to…

— Leonardo Sciascia

“The only institution in the Sicilian conscience that really counts is the family; counts, that is to say, more as a dramatic…

— Leonardo Sciascia

“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred…

— Leonardo Sciascia

“Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

“The Sicilian language is the only one in Europe that has no future tense. The island’s bitter legacy of conquest and revolt…

— Leonardo Sciascia

“There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say…

— Leonardo Sciascia

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

— Leonardo Sciascia

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon,…

— Leonardo Sciascia