Gesualdo Bufalino's 'Diceria dell'untore' (The Plague Sower) plunges readers into a haunting post-World War II sanatorium in Palermo, Sicily, where the dying live out their final days. Amidst a landscape of inescapable mortality, a young intellectual, a consumptive, falls deeply in love with a mysterious and vibrant woman. Their passionate, yet doomed, affair unfolds against a backdrop of illness, despair, and philosophical contemplation. Bufalino masterfully intertwines themes of love, death, memory, and the fragility of human existence, crafting a profoundly moving and intellectually stimulating narrative that explores the very essence of life on the precipice of oblivion.