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Books : The Leopard (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 853.914
EAN: 9780679407577
ISBN: 067940757X
Label: Everyman's Library
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 15, 1991
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: October 15, 1991
Studio: Everyman's Library
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
The Leopard is set in Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification is coming violently into being, but it transcends the historical-novel classification. E.M. Forster called it, instead, "a novel which happens to take place in history." Lampedusa's Sicily is a land where each social gesture is freighted with nuance, threat, and nostalgia, and his skeptical protagonist, Don Fabrizio, is uniquely placed to witness all and alter absolutely nothing. Like his creator, the prince is an aristocrat and an astronomer, a man "watching the ruin of his own class and his own inheritance without ever making, still less wanting to make, any move toward saving it." Far better to take refuge in the night skies.
What renders The Leopard so beautiful, and so despairing, is Lampedusa's grasp of human frailty and his vision of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." Though the author had long had the book in mind, he didn't begin writing it until he was in his late 50s. He died at 60, soon after it was rejected as unpublishable.
Archibald Colquhoun's lyrical translation also contains 70 more precious pages of Lampedusa--a memoir, a short story, and the first chapter of a novel. In "Places of My Infancy" the author warns that "the reader (who won't exist) must expect to be led meandering through a lost Earthly Paradise. If it bores him. I don't mind." Luckily, the reader does exist; even more luckily, boredom is not an option.
Product Description:
Introduction by David Gilmour; Translation by Archibald Colquhoun
Rating:
- An Italian historical Romance?
In a lot of ways this novel written in 1958 reads like Jane Austin
for me: the manners are of another time
and the customs are very much Latin.
It there a hidden policy here or just a comment on the changing of times? About the changing of the guard he say:" ... that process of continual refining which in the course of three generations transforms innocent peasants into defenseless gentry." The Leopard is the symbol of the family coat of arms in which we are told that old families ... Read More
Rating:
- The Leopard
An engaging read about Sicily during a time of monumental change. The author draws you into the scenario as the characters play out their destiny. Compelling enough to make you want to explore the vistas and cities of modern Sicily.
Rating: - A great novel
This novel is not just a story, not just an exercise in promotion, not just a product for the market--all of which are characteristics of so much of what is published these days. This is literature. It opens windows on the past, it explores human nature, it helps us understand ourselves and the wider world. The reflections on changes in society, on aging and the approach of death, both of a way of life and a specific individual, are enlightening and enriching. A wonderful book.
Rating:
- historical background of Sicily
Story provides historical background setting at the time of the unification of Sicily to Italy under Garibaldi. It captures the transition as it affected the ruling families.
Rating: - The Lelopard
Excellent book that takes you to the time period so thoroughly, you almost see yourself there. Great introduction to the history of Italy at the time, characters are totally believable.
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The Leopard (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Dewey Decimal Number: 853.914
EAN: 9780679407577
ISBN: 067940757X
Label: Everyman's Library
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 15, 1991
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: October 15, 1991
Studio: Everyman's Library
Related Items:
- The Leopard - Criterion Collection
- On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
- Midnight In Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra
- Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
- The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
The Leopard is set in Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification is coming violently into being, but it transcends the historical-novel classification. E.M. Forster called it, instead, "a novel which happens to take place in history." Lampedusa's Sicily is a land where each social gesture is freighted with nuance, threat, and nostalgia, and his skeptical protagonist, Don Fabrizio, is uniquely placed to witness all and alter absolutely nothing. Like his creator, the prince is an aristocrat and an astronomer, a man "watching the ruin of his own class and his own inheritance without ever making, still less wanting to make, any move toward saving it." Far better to take refuge in the night skies.
What renders The Leopard so beautiful, and so despairing, is Lampedusa's grasp of human frailty and his vision of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." Though the author had long had the book in mind, he didn't begin writing it until he was in his late 50s. He died at 60, soon after it was rejected as unpublishable.
Archibald Colquhoun's lyrical translation also contains 70 more precious pages of Lampedusa--a memoir, a short story, and the first chapter of a novel. In "Places of My Infancy" the author warns that "the reader (who won't exist) must expect to be led meandering through a lost Earthly Paradise. If it bores him. I don't mind." Luckily, the reader does exist; even more luckily, boredom is not an option.
Product Description:
Introduction by David Gilmour; Translation by Archibald Colquhoun
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- An Italian historical Romance?In a lot of ways this novel written in 1958 reads like Jane Austin
for me: the manners are of another time
and the customs are very much Latin.
It there a hidden policy here or just a comment on the changing of times? About the changing of the guard he say:" ... that process of continual refining which in the course of three generations transforms innocent peasants into defenseless gentry." The Leopard is the symbol of the family coat of arms in which we are told that old families ... Read More
Rating:
- The LeopardAn engaging read about Sicily during a time of monumental change. The author draws you into the scenario as the characters play out their destiny. Compelling enough to make you want to explore the vistas and cities of modern Sicily.
Rating:
- A great novelThis novel is not just a story, not just an exercise in promotion, not just a product for the market--all of which are characteristics of so much of what is published these days. This is literature. It opens windows on the past, it explores human nature, it helps us understand ourselves and the wider world. The reflections on changes in society, on aging and the approach of death, both of a way of life and a specific individual, are enlightening and enriching. A wonderful book.
Rating:
- historical background of SicilyStory provides historical background setting at the time of the unification of Sicily to Italy under Garibaldi. It captures the transition as it affected the ruling families.
Rating:
- The LelopardExcellent book that takes you to the time period so thoroughly, you almost see yourself there. Great introduction to the history of Italy at the time, characters are totally believable.
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
