Non solo d’Annunzio: 1912+1 come saggio.

LC: «Excuse me, Sciascia, but I think 1912 + 1 is more an essay than a short story. What do you say?» LS: «The truth? I would like to have been walking alongside my reader, but instead I find myself running. It’s d’Annunzio’s fault. Gabriele is a would-be flâneur as well as a devotee – in keeping with the French adepte – of creating caricature through citation. And yet, whether we see this or not, he taught us to be students of ourselves, and to engage precisely at the point of intersection with language, which, in essence, is the rhetoric of nowhere and everywhere. With d’Annunzio, you’re always elsewhere – sorry, ailleurs – and yet with Him, too. My text, then, is an example of what perhaps today, in English (but why are you all speaking English?) would be called ‘a Personal Essay’».