LA CAPPELLA DI FAMIGLIA / THE FAMILY CHAPEL AND OTHER VIGATA STORIES

In Vigàta, the stage of all Camilleri’s stories, protagonists and extras move; they act, but they are real people, because of the feelings they have and the adventures they live, they advance on the scene at the pace imprinted by the author, with a musical background that is the reckless and irresistible language he invented. Eight tales set in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that seem, despite the temporal distance between them, to compose a single novel. They all present a slow-burning humor, which does not erupt except off the pages, in the readers’ reactions. Camilleri overheats the scenes shrewdly, to release in the end volatile delights that are perfectly enjoyable, highly entertaining.