A novel that follows Marco's youth and political awakening across the rise of fascism, the Resistance, and the disappointments of the postwar years. It is both a coming-of-age story and a compressed portrait of 20th-century Italy's wounds.

A young man's uncertainty becomes the uncertainty of an era.

Through poems written in Sicilian dialect, this collection links peasant struggle, war, anti-fascism, and resistance to the mafia, while sketching the social history of 20th-century Sicily. It is one of Buttitta's defining books, driven by linguistic force and political urgency.

It turns the cadence of dialect into poetry shaped by memory, anger, and solidarity.

Against the intellectual tensions that followed 1968, Lucio Lombardo Radice revisits the works and fates of Kafka, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, and Kundera to reconsider the relationship between literature and power, and between the individual and the state.

A collection of essays that reexamines the relationship between literature and power through the names of writers who faced repression.