The consequences of reform gone awry. Sciascia, author of detective stories that portray the social and ethical realities of Sicilian life during the sixties, strikes out at a tangent here and sets The Council of Egypt in eighteenth century Palermo where ripples from pre-revolutionary France threaten the position of the Sicilian aristocracy. Expect conniving monks, blackmail and detailed descriptions of torture. A dark comedy with a message for Italy (and beyond) during the height of the Mafia’s campaign of violence.
Leonardo Sciascia, (born January 8, 1921, Racalmuto, near Agrigento – died November 20, 1989, Palermo), was a Sicilian writer and radical noted for his metaphysical examinations of political corruption and arbitrary power.
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