Leonardo Sciascia - Böcker

Leonardo Sciascias klassiker om maffian i nyöversättning. En man skjuts till döds på torget i en liten siciliansk stad, alldeles intill en fullsatt buss. Men när polisen börjar sin undersökning har ingen sett eller hört något. Kapten Bellodi, som får hand om fallet, förstår snart att det rör sig om ett dåd av maffian och att offret vägrat underkasta sig den kriminella organisationens makt. Boken fick stor uppmärksamhet när den kom ut första gången 1961 och regissören Damiano Damiano gjorde en film av boken.Tematiken i  "Ugglans dag" är aktuell och boken kallas för "den främsta och den bästa romanen om maffian". Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) var en italiensk författare och politiker. Hans mest kända verk är "Ugglans dag".FÖrord av Tomas Lappalainen.

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.

In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating officer, a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society. Indeed, his enquiries are soon blocked off by a wall of silence and vested interests; he must work against the community to save it and expose the truth.The narrative moves on two levels: that of the investigator, who reveals a chain of savage crimes; and that of the bystanders and watchers, of those complicit with secret power, whose gossipy, furtive conversations have only one end - to stop the truth coming out.This novel about the Mafia is also a mesmerizing demonstration of how that organization sustains itself. It is both a beautifully, tautly written story and a brave act of denunciation.

The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but with sinister overtones of betrayal and inconstancy. The four novellas in Sicilian Uncles, originally published in 1958, are political thrillers of a kind - the first fruits of Sciascia's maturity. In these stories, illusions about ideology and history are lost in mirth, suffering and abandoned innocence. Each novella has its historical moment: the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Spanish Civil War, the death of Stalin, the 'events' of 1848. These occasions and their consequences are registered in the lives of Sciascia's wonderfully drawn characters. Each has voice, wit and a private history which opens out onto the wider circumstances of his time.

District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this string of murders an individual vendetta or a more sinister plot? The charming Inspector Rogas is determined to find out. The pursuit of truth and justice are Rogas's vocation, but his work is frustrated by a system which defies his understanding. He needs a key, a way in, a map, and he is sure that his chief suspect Cres can provide it...The book, written in 1971, uncannily prefigures the Red Brigade's subsequent killing of magistrates and the Catholic-Communist pact of the late 1970s in Italy. Developed under Sciascia's hand in the spirit of a parody, Equal Danger has come to be regarded as a wide-ranging political thriller, one of the masterpieces of the genre.

Here are some of Sciascia's greatest stories - brief and haunting, the realist tradition at its best. In one tale a couple of men talk, cynically yet earnestly, about the etymology of the word 'mafia' - who they are, and why their interest is so piqued by the word, becomes apparent with frightening clarity. In another story a group of peasants are taken on board ship and promised that they will be put ashore illegally at Trenton, New Jersey; after a long time at sea, their landfall is far from what they expected. And Mussolini himself takes an interest in the case of Aleister Crowley, whose presence in Sicily has become an embarrassment.

On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on 18 March they said he would be tried in a 'people's court of justice'. Seven weeks later Moro's body was discovered in the boot of a Renault parked in the crowded centre of Rome. In this book, Leonardo Sciasica, a master of detective fiction, untangles the real-life events of these crucial weeks and provides a unique insight into the dangerous world of Italian politics in the 1970s.

Secret deals, powerful men and murder - One Way or Another is a chillingly prophetic work. The Knight and Death features a nameless (and apparently terminally ill) detective investigating the murder of a lawyer believed to have been killed by a mysterious revolutionary group. The detective thinks otherwise and sets out to prove that powerful business interests were involved, with the revolutionary group invented to cover up the real reasons behind the murder.

Am helllichten Tag wird auf der Piazza ein Bauunternehmer mit zwei Schüssen getötet, als er gerade in den schon anfahrenden Bus springen will. Fahrer, Fahrgäste und Schaffner, niemand hat etwas gesehen.In seinem berühmtesten Roman, mit dem er 1961 debütierte, beschreibt Sciascia erstmals die Strukturen der Mafia – als diese von der Öffentlichkeit noch geleugnet wird – und charakterisiert meisterlich ihre Gestalten. In der von Thomas Vormbaum herausgegebenen Reihe Recht in der Kunst – Kunst im Recht wird Sciascias Klassiker zudem von renommierten Betrachtern analysiert: Gisela Schlüter übernimmt den literaturwissenschaftlichen Kommentar, Daniele Negri den juristischen.