Di una incertezza dell’ermeneutica di Ricœur ‘risolta’ dalla «trilogia fantastica» di Camilleri

Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical work is characterised by the lack of a general theoretical unity and, perhaps, also by the lack of uniformity and (therefore) of a methodological-speculative force. The application of his critical hermeneutics to literature expresses a difficulty and determines a quasi-paradoxical situation: on the one hand, Ricoeur has become one of the greatest representatives of narrative hermeneutics; on the other hand, his research on literature turns out to be diversified, fragmentary and discontinuous. However, a Ricoeurian exercise on Andrea Camilleri’s “fantastic trilogy” of Maruzza Musumeci (2007), Il casellante (2008) and Il sonaglio (2009) shows the validity, significance and consistency behind the mobile and tensional model of Ricoeur’s hermeneutic approach. Conversely, this application reveals how, in Camilleri’s fantastic trilogy, the deep is explored through a wise use of symbolism connected to millennia of cultural and spiritual life.