Candido
Author: Leonardo Sciascia
Desc: Candido or A Dream dreamed in Sicily is about a character stricken from birth with a strange disability: a devotion to naked unadorned truth. Child adolescent and man he is drawn into many difficulties by his affliction. "Things are always simple " he says-in religion politics and human affairs. But the Lie is at work and the consequences are all too clear in Candido's Sicily - a land 'dreamed' but no less real for that. Untruth comes in a dozen shapes and brings with it a huge burden of injustice and suffering. It can be outfaced only by innocence.