Name: The Professor and the Siren (New York Review Books Classics)
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Author: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ISBN: 9781590177198

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The Professor and the Siren (New York Review Books Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Publisher

New York Review Of Books

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781590177198

Synopsis "The Professor and the Siren (New York Review Books Classics) "

An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation. “The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between erotic love and learning. Professor La Ciura is one of the world’s most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life. This Lampedusa’s final masterpiece, is accompanied here by the parable “Joy and the Law” and “The Blind Kittens,” a story originally conceived as the first chapter of a followup to The Leopard.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Palermo, 1896 - Rome 1957) belonged to an aristocratic family, participated in two world wars, and traveled extensively through Europe. He decided to dedicate himself to literature in the last two years of his life and wrote The Leopard, his only novel, published posthumously in 1958, awarded the Strega Prize and becoming one of the essential works of the twentieth-century novelistic canon.

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