Sciascia interprete dell'invisibile. La microstoria come spazio di verità

This essay – prepared for the «XIV Leonardo Sciascia Colloquium» held in Venice on November 13th and 14th 2023 – analyses some of Sciascia’s essays through the lens of microhistory. Sciascia’s investigative novels differ from microhistory in their ‘practice of rewriting’, but they are similar in the way the writer uses a ‘reading method’ to understand and interpret reality. This article, starting from "Death of an Inquisitor", reflects on the premises at the origin of such a method and demonstrates, secondly, a recourse to the investigation of ‘small events’ in contemporary works not comparable to microhistories, such as "The Mystery of Majorana" and "The Moro Affair".