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I PARCHI LETTERARI "IN THE DIMENSION OF THE JOURNEY" -
THE PLACES: RACALMUTO
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An agricultural town located thirty-four
kilometres from Agrigento, was founded near the
Castello dei Chiaramonte during the period of
Norman rule. The manor house rises up east of
the city centre and is positioned on top of a
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At the beginning of the 20th Century, the castle was
declared a national monument.
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is also the birthplace of Leonardo Sciascia, who
spent a great portion of his life here. The writer is
buried in the small cemetery.
Sciascia invented Regalpetra, the "imaginary" town that
is the setting for the events of “The Parishes of
Regalpetra”, a work from 1956 which contains all of the
themes so dear to the author, in his heart brightened by
Sicily which was nothing more than abandoned lands and
sulphur, in the centre of the island that for Sciascia
was the centre of the world, a “theatre of memory”. The
city that gives its name to the title of “The Parishes
of Regalpetra” is, in fact, fictitious and composite,
the result of a combination of the true name of
Racalmuto where the maestro Sciascia worked and suffered,
combating the spectres of misery, ignorance and
subjection, and the literary name Petra, by Nino
Savarese, the writer from Enna and author of “Events of
Petra”, taken on as a symbol of the great literary
traditions that has transformed Sicily and its cities
into a geography of the soul, in a battle trench against
approval, in an outpost of critical thought.
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