"San Calò sono": Alfonso Bugea's book passes the AI test.

Journalist Alfonso Bugea 's book "San Calò sono" has also won over Artificial Intelligence. The publication, which explores the affectionate yet contradictory relationship between Andrea Camilleri and San Calogero , was the subject of a lengthy review generated by a chatbot capable of analyzing its content, style, and language.

The eBook, enriched by prefaces by Michele Guardì and Gaetano Savatteri and photographs by Gianfranco Jannuzzo , is available exclusively in digital format on the Amazon Kindle platform at the price of 2.70 euros .

According to the AI analysis, "San Calò sono presents itself as a successful example of memoir and affective narrative, which intertwines popular news, local myth and literary biography." At its core, the bond between Don Nenè and the "de facto" patron saint of Porto Empedocle, told in a familiar and confidential tone, capable of transforming individual memory into collective mythology .

One of the highlighted passages is the contrast between the sacred and the profane: “Camilleri’s ambiguous and almost superstitious devotion is not treated as a contradiction, but as a typically Sicilian paradox.” In this sense, Saint Calò is not seen as an official religious figure, but as a saint close to the people: “He is not God, he is not religion: he is one of us, a proletarian saint who is liked only by the communists.”

The review also highlights the work's narrative style , which alternates between cultured and popular registers, enriched by Empedocle dialect expressions. "The vocabulary is dense, narrative, visual, and theatrical," writes the IA, "capable of conveying the local color and authenticity of the spoken language."

The result is a text that preserves the authentic voice of the community, far from rhetoric, and that portrays a complex and contradictory Sicily , capable of uniting high culture and popular tradition. For Artificial Intelligence, the work constructs a true "mythology of Empedocline in which Camilleri and San Calogero become two faces of the same Sicily, both concrete and surreal, both carnal and spiritual."

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