Zola in Sciascia: Una nota su Candido (1977) e sul corpo.

[Machine translation] Leonardo Sciascia did not have a strong interest in Émile Zola (1840-1902), who goes through essays and interviews by the Sicilian writer almost like a meteor. And yet, in a significantly central and very important passage from Candido, namely A Dream Made in Sicily (1977), the author of L'Assommoir (1876) and Germinal (1885) peeps out in a less obvious way. These pages attempt to suggest, quickly and slightly, a cross-section of the Sciascian narrative path, in which Zola helps Sciascia to regain possession of the only revenant that could perhaps give us a less uncertain future within the reifying drifts of post-industrial capitalism at the end of the twentieth century and then at the beginning of the new century and millennium: our body.