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 | | And he learned that in Sicily, which has been invaded repeatedly over the centuries--by Arabs, Normans, Bourbons, Greeks, Spaniards, Romans, et al.--nothing is ever quite what it seems. |
 | | And this is what ties his work, in that odd Sicilian way, to the fictions, particularly the longer fictions, of Sciascia, whose novels manage to combine brooding philosophical and historical meditations, and the kind of intellectual detective work that doesn't solve crimes so much as open them up into larger crimes that redefine paranoia itself. |
 | | There is a playfulness to his work, and a murderous irony as well, that makes him, in many ways, very much the descendant of his fellow Sicilian Luigi Pirandello, who likewise was a student of the malleable identity, the social illusion that obscures reality, the social masks that people don. |
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