Council of Egypt Sciascia Leonardo
Council of Egypt Sciascia Leonardo Palermo, 1783: The barons pursue their feuds and petty plotting. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favour with Naples, 'invents' an ancient Arabic…
Specifikacia Council of Egypt Sciascia Leonardo
Council of Egypt Sciascia Leonardo
Palermo, 1783: The barons pursue their feuds and petty plotting. And the porcine abbot Vella, eager to curry favour with Naples, 'invents' an ancient Arabic chronicle, The Council of Egypt, that enhances the rights of some families, rewriting Sicilian history. Their wives indulge in forbidden French novels.
In the evocation of a country, its people and its traditions, this is Sciascia's largest and most vivid Over the ironies of plot and character, hangs the crueller irony of history.