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El Dia de l'òliba (1961)

de Leonardo Sciascia

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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 wall of silence and vested interests; he must work against the very 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.… (més)
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Il capitano dei carabinieri Bellodi è emiliano e il trasferimento in Sicilia gli apre un mondo nuovo. Il muro di omertà dei cittadini di un paesino in provincia di Palermo in occasione di un omicidio è impressionante. Un uomo è stato assassinato a colpi di lupara in pieno giorno mentre saliva su un autobus. Ma nessuno ha visto niente, anzi, a ben vedere, nessuno c’era. Ma il capitano Bellodi non rinuncia ad indagare, a collegare gli indizi, e alla fine di una difficile indagine riesce a ricostruire non solo il crimine, ma a risalire al vero mandante, Don Mariano Arena, un potente politico siciliano che vive a Roma. Ma tutta l’attività investigativa verrà poi azzerata da un processo farsa che individua nell’amante della moglie della vittima l’omicida. Bellodi apprenderà l’esito del processo mentre è a Parma, nella sua città, da una distanza siderale con la realtà siciliana. “Il giorno della civetta” è un racconto lungo, il libro me l’hanno regalato societta e ossuto Stallone in occasione del mio compleanno. Non so per quale ragione mi era sfuggito un libro del genere, importante perché per la prima volta il fenomeno sociale della mafia viene trattato, da uno scrittore siciliano, al di fuori dell’indagine storiografica e sociale. Il libro si legge tutto di un fiato, io l’ho fatto praticamente in una notte da insonne. Ma la fluidità del testo fa da controaltare al contenuto del libro, perché in poche pagine Sciascia riesce a tratteggiare in modo incredibile i tratti peculiari della mafia e l’atteggiamento di un intero popolo rispetto all’organizzazione criminale. E l’analisi storica, con particolare riferimento alle attività del prefetto Mori durante il fascismo, è perfetta, incredibile soprattutto per la brevità del romanzo. Veramente molto, molto bello, e bravi societta e Stallone pelle e ossa. ( )
  grandeghi | Feb 6, 2024 |
I wouldn't really recommend this to someone as a novel, but as a kind of j'accuse poem, it's very nice. I imagine it having a long life in University courses on 20th century Italian History and Culture, but not literature.

On the other hand, maybe it's expanding what you can do with a novel; it does away with names, for the most part, and character, and narrative coherence, but it does a great deal with conspiracy, the personal cost of chasing the Mafia in post-war Italy, and almost total minimalism in everything else. It's also a nice counterpoint to the American mythologization of the Mafia thanks to, e.g., The Godfather and its sequels. Brando and his offspring are variations on the American-immigrant-just-struggling-to-make-it-in-this-crazy-world; individualists kind of sort of living out the American dream. In Day of the Owl, mafia types are one more part of a corrupt, not entirely post-fascist system.

It's also interesting to read this with Kushner's 'Flamethrowers' and Ferrante's work still hovering in my mind. Late 20th century Italy is a truly fascinating place, though not one I'd really want to have lived in. Sciascia, like Ferrante after him, does a particularly good job showing how the communist/fascist faultlines make everyday life treacherous even for basically good people. ( )
  stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |
I don't know if there is more I can say about Sciascia than I've already said...and surely it's been said better by others. It's a surreal world he describes, and to think in actuality it is the real world.

I recommend to anybody who has read the Neapolitan series by Ferrante to read these. It gives a different perspective on the corrupt and violent society which is the source of her writing. ( )
  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
I don't know if there is more I can say about Sciascia than I've already said...and surely it's been said better by others. It's a surreal world he describes, and to think in actuality it is the real world.

I recommend to anybody who has read the Neapolitan series by Ferrante to read these. It gives a different perspective on the corrupt and violent society which is the source of her writing. ( )
  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
I don't know if there is more I can say about Sciascia than I've already said...and surely it's been said better by others. It's a surreal world he describes, and to think in actuality it is the real world.

I recommend to anybody who has read the Neapolitan series by Ferrante to read these. It gives a different perspective on the corrupt and violent society which is the source of her writing. ( )
  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
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Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Sciascia, Leonardoautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Baglione, AnnaEditorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Colquhoun, ArchibaldTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Marchese, RiccardoCol·laboradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Marsh, JamesAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Oliver, ArthurTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Pennings, LindaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Scialabba, GeorgeIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Verhaart-Bodderij, J.A.Traductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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"The Day of the Owl" was published in an English translation by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver in 1964 (NY: Alfred A. Knopf). It appeared under the title "Mafia Vendetta".
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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 wall of silence and vested interests; he must work against the very 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.

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