Italian: Giallo & spumante: Advanced Italian Mysteries Club *Online*

Stereotyped as the land of crime and intrigue, Italy has been the setting of many international best-selling mysteries. Politically committed, narratively sophisticated, and supremely enjoyable, the best Italian mysteries explore the dark side of Italy’s present, challenge ideas of justice, and seduce readers with the evocation of la dolce vita. Join us for a discussion of Leonardo Sciascia's La scomparsa di Majorana (1975). First published as a piece of investigative journalism, the book follows the mysterious disappearance of Ettore Majorana in 1938. The brilliant Sicilian physicist was involved in research of atomic particles. Sciascia collects fragmentary information on the facts and testimonies of people close to Majorana, reworking them in a provocative hypothesis and asking questions about the responsibility of scientists and men of letters in the face of man made human catastrophe.
Required reading: La scomparsa di Majorana by Leonardo Sciascia
Instructor: Maria Grazia Lolla

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Native Speaker, Ph.D., University of Cambridge