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...STORIES AND A MEMORY (189 pp.)-Giuseppe di Lampedusa-Pantheon...
...another Lampedusa book has washed ashore. It is a minor work, containing nothing as powerful as the portrait of Don Fabrizio, the autocratic old Leopard. But the fine spaciousness of mind is there in the book's three sections: a memoir of the author's childhood homes, a short story and a fragment of a novel...
Stables and Portraits. The memoir is a lovingly conducted tour through what obviously are the stage settings for The Leopard. The best of this recollection begins with Lampedusa's description of the annual family removal from Palermo to the vast summer house at Santa Margherita Belice. The train ride seemed hot and endless to little Giuseppe. There were no toilets aboard; the family bought a cheap brown chamber pot for him, which was thrown out the window just before the end of the trip. The summer house was a vast affair that the author describes as "a kind...
Such were the surroundings of Lampedusa's boyhood. As an adult, while the traditions and the estates of the aristocracy passed through their final decay, the author, who did not need to work, devoted himself to learning the world's literature...
...promises the bite and breadth of the earlier book, and the reader can only wish that Lampedusa had finished it. But true to his tradition, the author's spacious spirit required that time, like everything else, be spent with extravagance...