La verità del ‘delitto ancillare’. Indizi fra le pagine de 'La scomparsa di Majorana'

These brief notes on La scomparsa di Majorana are intended to test the historical-legal perspective within Sciascia’s masterpiece, exploiting the method of investigation adopted in the novel to shed light on the mystery of the young physicist. The ‘case in the case’ of the murder of a baby, Cicciuzzo Amato, a legal matter on which the Author dwells, focusing his attention on the distorting effects of the procedural mechanisms and on the related issue of truth, offers stimulating and surprising opportunities for analysis.