(Fabio Bagnasco) In the midst of the fascist period, a writer from Polizzi Generosa in Sicily and about to face a long separation from Italy, declares that "The sun has never set". The phrase could be interpreted as a call to liberate literature from the confines of dictatorship. At the same time, it was an eloquent assertion as to the primacy of ethics, of the moral poignancy of narrative plot, in an attempt to overcome a certain ‘calligrafismo’ which tended to confine writing, and writers, to a world of divertissement or aesthetics.

It is also the title of a collection of novels by Giuseppe Antonio Borgese ("Il sole non è mai tramontato" published by Nerosubianco), the first edition of which was released in 1929. It was re-published in 1933 and 1950 with some minor differences in punctuation and wording. In the 1950 edition, the last published, the writer added a short novel, a novella, entitled "Tempesta nel nulla". This latest edition gives us the opportunity of a deeper understanding of the editorial path of the Sicilian writer. As is well known, he established himself as a journalist and polemicist, as well as a supporter of a profound and intense literary practice in opposition to the ‘frammentismo’ that he considered superficial and ornamental.