ABSTRACT
In his interviews or parliamentary speeches - as well as in his fiction - the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia ceaselessly denounced the mafia. According to him, the hegemony of the organized crime and its connections in institutional politics were responsible to prevent the access to truth and justice. Consistently, his distinctive detective stories present unsolved crimes, defeated detectives, silences and omissions. Thus, through the crimes in the text and the real crimes, Sciascia draws the profile of Sicily and, more widely, the profile of Italy.
Keywords:
Leonardo Sciascia; mafia; detective stories