Gesualdo Bufalino (15 November 1920, Comiso – 14 June 1996, Vittoria) was an Italian writer best known for his first-published novel Diceria dell'untore (1981). The novel draws on his experience as a patient in a Palermo sanatorium.

Born in Comiso on 15 November 1920; died 14 June 1996 in Vittoria. Diceria dell'untore was published in 1981; Bufalino's experience of tuberculosis and convalescence in a Palermo sanatorium informs the book. He was interviewed by Leonardo Sciascia.

The available review focuses on Diceria dell'untore and Bufalino's sanatorium experience, language and morbid imagery. It highlights the novel's late composition and long revision. Themes include death, memory, and the invention of reality through words.

For:readers of literary fiction; students and scholars of Italian literature; readers interested in illness narratives

 «I thought of and sketched around ’50, I wrote it in ’71. Since then, an uninterrupted revision: up to the print proofs. It came from my experience as a patient in a sanatorium in Palermo: in the post-war years, when tuberculosis still killed and marked as in the nineteenth century»

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