Leonardo Sciascia constantly reads and analyzes Luigi Pirandello’s works. The last tribute to Pirandello is the one that appears in 1989, Alfabeto pirandelliano, in which he uses some key words of his literary repertoire. This paper focuses on “olivo” and “zolfo”, two common nouns divided between reality and symbols also describing the genia loci of internal Sicily. The Saracen olive represents the circularity of Pirandello’s writing that Sciascia considers as a return to the land in which the Sicilian writer was born and a place of metamorphosis and mythical memory. Sulfur, on the other hand, is an experience element lived both by Pirandello and Sciascia and in both cases, although from different economic positions, with dramatic outcomes.