Le parole scivolose : Sciascia e il vocabolario della giustizia

This paper, presented at the 12th Leonardo Sciascia Colloquium held in Rome on the 7th and 8th of October 2021, revolves around law lexicon usedin To Future Memory (1989), suggesting verifications and comparisons with Sciascia's entire body of work. The results show linguistic phenomenon oriented towards a common goal: broadening and generalising the meaning of each term, complicating its semantic borders, removing its specificity. What happens is a de-specialisation of the vocabulary of justice, in the name of a value and meaning which is not technical but rather natural and instinctive, and a duplication, in the ambiguity of words-as-justice of that uncertain production of thing-as-justice, which Sciascia never ceased to denounce. This analysis also maps linguistic relationships with authors suchas Manzoni, Primo Levi and Natalia Ginzburg. [Publisher's text]