9781860460210
The Siren and Selected Writings
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa; Archibald Colquhoun; Guido Waldman; David Gilmour; Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
ISBN 13: 9781860460210
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
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Although best known as author of a singular masterpiece, The Leopard, the Prince of Lampedusa left a rich and varied oeuvre that repays a careful reading. The best and most representative of it is collected in this volume. Places of My Infancy, a childhood memory of the Lampedusa palace in Palermo at the turn of the century, and of the great family mansion inland at Santa Margherita, provides a fascinating background to the princely setting of The Leopard. The text hitherto published had been edited and pruned by the author's widow, and resulted in a somewhat impoverished version. Here the author's original text -- with many characters and incidents earlier suppressed -- has been fully restored. The story of The Professor and the Siren, a delicious example of Lampedusa's fantasy, and The Blind Kittens(the first chapter of an unfinished novel of bourgeois Sicily that would have formed a pendant to The Leopard) both featured as appendices to Harvill's earlier edition of the great novel. They are included here together with a charming, comic, bitter-sweet story, Joy and the Law. Giuseppe di Lampedusa's knowledge of English literature, which derived from a lifetime's reading as well as from a number of extended visits to Britain as a young man, bore fruit in a series of informal seminars he gave in his later years at Palermo. The plan was to introduce his listeners to English writers from Bede to Aldous Huxley, pausing along the way not only at the great classics but also among the lesser known Restoration poets and Victorian novelists. To this, as also in his shrewd and dynamic appraisal of the French novelist Stendhal, he brought the lucid intellect and warmth of feeling that informs his own deeply Sicilian creative genius. These writings are introduced and set in context by David Gilmour, author of the seminal biography of Lampedusa, The Last Leopard.
Review:
"This volume is exciting for the insight it provides into the evolution of ['The Leopard']....This gem of a volume offers delightful glimpses of a writer worthy of attention well beyond the university circles that have until now adulated him."
Kirkus, 10/01/1997
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