Leonardo Sciascia (1921–1989) was an Italian writer from Racalmuto, Sicily, known for novels and essays that explore justice, power, and Sicilian life.

Sciascia's works often focus on mystery and investigation, institutional power and injustice, and are set frequently in Sicily. He published novels and essays in the mid-to-late 20th century.

Three DeBaser reviews praise Sciascia's clear, investigative prose and moral focus. Common themes: disappearance and mystery (Majorana), institutional power and injustice (Death of the Inquisitor), and terse, plot-driven narrative (Una Storia Semplice). The reviewers admire his lucidity and thematic depth.

For:Readers of Italian literature, fans of crime and political fiction, students of 20th-century Sicilian writing

 The last gem of the - for many and for me - greatest Italian writer, released posthumously by testamentary will.

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 Did Majorana really kill himself? Was he kidnapped? Or perhaps, faced with the nightmarish prospects opened by the discovery of the atomic bomb in the Europe of Hitler and Mussolini, did he choose to "disappear"?

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 Thus, Death of the Inquisitor narrates the relentless institutional ferocity unleashed against the man of tenacious thought.

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