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The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780955010514
ISBN: 0955010519
Label: Eland Books
Manufacturer: Eland Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 277
Publication Date: December 31, 2007
Publisher: Eland Books
Sales Rank: 292116
Studio: Eland Books

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Biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, author of The Leopard and last Sicilian prince.

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- Something of the Hero
This biography of Giuseppe de Lampedusa is a fine book in its own right, but its greater merit is the way it illuminates both the novel and the movie that remain as the legacy of di Lampedusa's career. Aside, perhaps, for his friends and neighbors, we wouldn't remember him at all were it not as the author of "The Leopard," not published until after his death, but in time to emerge as perhaps the best-known Italian novel of the 20th Century.

Most people, whether or not they have ever heard of the novel, will recognize it (if at all) in the form of Burt Lancaster, swooping around the ballroom floor in Visconti's great movie. It's wonderful fun but it is doubly misleading. Lancaster persists in our mind as the picture of what we want an aristocrat to be: lean and strapping, dignified and austere. A careful reading of the novel will remind us that this was never quite what di Lampedusa had in mind: ... Read More

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