It's impossible to deny the impact on Latin American literature of a Sicilian author who, somehow, managed to join Borges with the great French moralists: Leonardo Sciascia. The reading of Sciascia is particularly important in Juan C�rdenas's latest novel, in which politics, religion, and industry (three quintessentially Sciasian themes) are as important as sex or nature, two themes that C�rdenas tends to favor in this, one of the preeminent Latin American novels of the 21st century.
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It's impossible to deny the impact on Latin American literature of a Sicilian author who, somehow, managed to join Borges with the great French moralists: Leonardo Sciascia. The reading of Sciascia is particularly important in Juan C�rdenas's latest novel, in which politics, religion, and industry (three quintessentially Sciasian themes) are as important as sex or nature, two themes that C�rdenas tends to favor in this, one of the preeminent Latin American novels of the 21st century.
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