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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A 'detective' novel, it's really more than that--a tightly written novel about society and life in small town Sicily. Sciascia somehow gives the reader a real sense of place without lengthy descriptions. One of those books that's thin (Sciascia, in an interview, talked about 'thin' and 'thick' writers) yet complex, but reads very cleanly and quickly. No idea how he did it. I'm completely taken aback that I've never even heard of Sciascia before. I'm particularly surprised since my father was a fan of 'crime' fiction and built up an enormous library of them including much that was quite obscure, yet I see on our old database that we never stocked this author. Lots has been written about his work - see Penkevich's review on GR for a nice discussion of this particular book. I was particularly interested to see Vincenzo Salerno's comment that 'His rough and tumble literary style is not always captured in the English translation of his works, but the spirit is there.' Certainly I admired the elegance of To Each His Own as I read it - my copy being the translation by Adrienne Foulke. And it may be relevant to note that the present translations of Ferrante have received similar criticism. I'd really hate Salerno's observations on Sciascia to go missing, please do read them all, not just the start which I reproduce here: rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/to-each-his-own-by-leonar... I'm completely taken aback that I've never even heard of Sciascia before. I'm particularly surprised since my father was a fan of 'crime' fiction and built up an enormous library of them including much that was quite obscure, yet I see on our old database that we never stocked this author. Lots has been written about his work - see Penkevich's review on GR for a nice discussion of this particular book. I was particularly interested to see Vincenzo Salerno's comment that 'His rough and tumble literary style is not always captured in the English translation of his works, but the spirit is there.' Certainly I admired the elegance of To Each His Own as I read it - my copy being the translation by Adrienne Foulke. And it may be relevant to note that the present translations of Ferrante have received similar criticism. I'd really hate Salerno's observations on Sciascia to go missing, please do read them all, not just the start which I reproduce here: rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/to-each-his-own-by-leonar... I'm completely taken aback that I've never even heard of Sciascia before. I'm particularly surprised since my father was a fan of 'crime' fiction and built up an enormous library of them including much that was quite obscure, yet I see on our old database that we never stocked this author. Lots has been written about his work - see Penkevich's review on GR for a nice discussion of this particular book. I was particularly interested to see Vincenzo Salerno's comment that 'His rough and tumble literary style is not always captured in the English translation of his works, but the spirit is there.' Certainly I admired the elegance of To Each His Own as I read it - my copy being the translation by Adrienne Foulke. And it may be relevant to note that the present translations of Ferrante have received similar criticism. I'd really hate Salerno's observations on Sciascia to go missing, please do read them all, not just the start which I reproduce here: rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/to-each-his-own-by-leonar... no reviews | add a review
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Aggiornamento 2021
Un piacere rileggere una vicenda così esemplare, così compiuta, una summa leggera (non a caso tradotta da Petri in un film - che non ho visto) da cui emergono tutti i tratti di Sciascia.
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