Una storia semplice (novel)

Una storia semplice (A Simple Story) is a short novel by Leonardo Sciascia. It was the last novel of the author to be published, shortly before his death. It is inspired by a real event, i.e. the theft of the Caravaggio Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, which happened in 1969.[1][2] A film based on the novel was directed by Emidio Greco and released in 1991.[3]

English translations

Una storia semplice appeared as A Straightforward Tale in 1991, together with two other novels translated by Joseph Farrell, in the Carcanet The Knight and Death, & Other Stories volume. A slightly different edition later appeared at Harvill, The Knight and Death: Three Novellas (1992) and at Knopf (1992; republished by Vintage Books in 1993 as Open Doors and Three Novellas). The most recent edition appeared in 2003 at Granta, as part of The Knight and Death & One Way Another volume (republished in 2014). In 2010, a small London-based publisher, Hesperus Press, had the novel retranslated by Howard Curtis. It appeared – together with Candido – as A Simple Story.[4]

References
  1. Matteo Collura. Sicilia sconosciuta. Rizzoli. ISBN 8858606663.
  2. Gianni Bonina (15 June 2012). "Il Caravaggio rubato dalla cronaca al mito". La Repubblica. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  3. Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore. ISBN 8884401372.
  4. Di Martino, Emilia (2018). "Images de mafia à cheval sur trois cultures : Una storia semplice de Leonardo Sciascia et ses traductions espagnole, française, anglaise". Poli-femo. 15–16: 145.


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