IL GIOCO DELLA MOSCA / THE FLY GAME

«Mine was a country of land and sea. It had a hinterland large enough for the germs of a peasant culture to take root there, which were intertwined, mixed with those of a culture, more articulated and blurred, which was proper to fishermen, to sailors. Since the time of my childhood many things have naturally changed, for the better or for the worse I don’t care, but precisely because they have changed they are in danger of being lost, of fading away even within memory». Sentences, sayings, mimes, proverbs of Sicilian speech, collected and explained “genetically,” in the manner of their emergence from variously handed down micro-episodes, micronarratives, or-as Camilleri says-from «cellular stories».