by Leonardo Sciascia · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472231405
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«El caballero y la muerte» is a crime novel by Leonardo Sciascia, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (120 pages, in Spanish).
Vice, a skeptical and unwell deputy commissioner, investigates the murder of a powerful lawyer and politician. The crime points to a terrorist group, «Los hijos del 89», linked to the French Revolution. Sciascia delivers a crime fable of caustic sarcasm and bitterness, with Dürer's engraving «El caballero, la muerte y el diablo» as a backdrop.
Published by Tusquets Editores in 1989; part of the Andanzas collection, volume 106. Original Italian title: «Il cavaliere e la morte. Sotie».
For readers of crime fiction and political criticism, especially those seeking classics of twentieth-century Italian literature.
Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, Todo Modo and Il giorno della civetta.
