Every now and then in human history emerge pivotal literary works such as Sun Tzu’s The art of war, Machiavelli’s Il principe, Descartes’ Discours de la méthode, St-Exupery’s Le petit prince or Schrödinger’s What is life. Despite their brevity, such texts are nevertheless monumental, turning on their heads entrenched paradigms and uncovering insights on fundamental artistic, scientific or philosophical human quests.

In this same vein, jean de la nuit’s Lo sradicato is a compact impactful intellectual prowess and instant classic.

This satirical portrait of modern Sicily where he spent a decade becomes the background through which jean de la nuit delivers novel perspectives on timeless sociological, political and theological subjects of universal significance.

Similarly to the complexities of his native land, nothing is what it seems with this masterpiece, and it is only with the last chapters that each one of the author’s impressionist strokes come together in a mind-shifting finale, which delivers a break-through general framework to one of contemporary science's most crucial conundrums: the very nature of consciousness.

Written in Italian, one of jean de la nuit’s native languages, Lo sradicato's structure, articulating around 3 parts and 18 short chapters including a breath-taking prologue, makes it either: