Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) is one the greatest Italian writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Author of novels, stories, plays and essays which he considered as a single body of work, everything he wrote revolves around his native island: Sicily. He taught in his youth, until he decided to devote himself to writing. Throughout his public life risky, denounced and challenged the mafia and its influence in Italian politics. He was a member of the Communist Party and later the Radical Party, for which he was elected to the European Parliament in 1979. justice is considered "the sicilana conscience." He died in the city of Palermo. He published, among other books, "The parishes of Regalpetra", "The Day of the Owl", "The board of Egypt", "To each his own", "Context", "Events of literary and civil history," "the Knight and death", "1912 + 1", "Theatre of Memory", "All mode", "open Doors", "the witch and the captain," "a Simple Story" and "Candide or Sicilian dream. "The fiction of Sciascia has been disseminated widely in almost all languages and also known thanks to the film, which adapted some of his novels. But his essays on Stendhal had been hitherto virtually unknown to readers in Spanish. Sciascia was, as Lampedusa, a careful reader of Stendhal, because both were thrilled by the love shown by the French writer Italy. Some texts Sciascia on Stendhal -atravesados have a special fascination disorganized appeared in newspapers, magazines and books, but here for the first time all together in one volume
