BEING LIKE LEONARDO SCIASCIA GUSTAW HERLING-GRUDZINSKI AND SICILIAN OBSESSIONS*** BYC JAK LEONARDO SCIASCIA GUSTAW HERLING-GRUDZINSKI I SYCYLIJS']JSKIE OBSESJE

The article is a detailed analysis of Leonardo Sciascia's creativity reception in Gustaw Herling-Grudziriski's works. Herling, fascinated by the Sicilian, attempts not only to approach to the literary genetic and stylistic problems of Sciascia's novels, but also to the themes discussed in them and the ideological stance they adopt. Sciascia, who in his creativity often based on source materials, is exceptionally close to Grudzinski, an indefatigable reader of Italian chronicles. Grudzinski not accidentally highly evaluated Sciascia's book Morte dell'Inquisitore based on facts. Such interest tells much about his own creativity. The author of the paper aims to argue that Gradzinski intentionally displays such Sciascia's individual traits which he might recognize as characteristic also of his own and views the Sicilian writer's output as a unique lesson about Sicilia with which he is enchanted.