Author · Storyteller · European observer
Leonardo
Mascia
Writing about the places that welcome us, shape us—and occasionally ask us to complete another form.
About
Three countries.
One inconvenient point of view.
Leonardo Mascia is an Italian author shaped by years spent between Italy, France, and Switzerland. His writing begins where the official version of a country ends: in offices, workplaces, rented flats, railway stations, and the small rituals through which a society reveals what it truly expects from the people living inside it.
He writes with the eye of an outsider and the memory of someone who stayed long enough to stop being one. His work blends personal narrative, social observation, and a dry irony reserved for systems that function beautifully—even when human beings do not.
The first book
Switzerland,
The Golden Cage
A journey through work, bureaucracy, integration, efficiency, and the carefully organised absurdities of everyday Swiss life. Available in Italian, English, and French.
“Switzerland works perfectly. That is precisely the problem.”
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One cage. Three languages.
Italy taught him how to improvise. France taught him how to argue. Switzerland taught him that both activities required an appointment.