1. Tra vero, gioco e invenzione: Camilleri negli interstizi della storia

Reality, Play, and Fiction. Camilleri through the Cracks of History · This paper focuses on some aspects of Andrea Camilleri’s historical narrative, taking into consideration three titles: Il colore del sole (2007), Inseguendo un’ombra (2014) and especially La rivoluzione del- la luna (2013). Starting from a reflection on a certain metaliterary tendency in Camilleri’s work, I want to highlight how the author explores the dialectic relation between reality and fiction, typical of the historical novel. Through a peculiar analysis of sources and the free use of them, Camilleri adds to the historical background a series of inventions that, with a keen sense of play, overturn the course of historical events.