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...Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. An ironic, moving, melancholy elegy to the last century's aristocratic life - a major fictional creation...
...Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. A wry, moving, melancholy elegy to the last century's aristocratic life-a major fictional creation...
...Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. The first and only novel by a Sicilian prince who died in 1957, this is a wry, moving, melancholy elegy to the last century's aristocratic life, and its hero is a major fictional creation...
Pagan Frieze. It is the story of Lampe-dusa's own great-grandfather, Giulio, set at the time of Garibaldi's landing in Sicily (1860), and the plot of The Leopard is as bare as a sun-seared Sicilian hillside. The hero-known in the novel as Don Fabrizio, prince of the House of Salina-simply lives out the death of his class, the feudal landed gentry. The only action is inaction. But to mistake the story for the subject is to assume that a pearl is about grit. Amateur Novelist Lampedusa's real interest and achievement...
Time Past. Unlike Tancredi, the prince is too proud, too much the unbending leopard on his own family crest, to be able to lick his wounds by joining those who inflict them. In the mid-span of his life he courts oblivion ("While there's death there's hope"), and measures out the ''sediment of grief which, accumulating day by day, would in the end be the real cause of his death...