The Leopard, published posthumously in
1958, was one of the most important works
of fiction to appear in the Italian language
in the twentieth century. Between 1925
and 1930, its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di
Lampedusa, wrote a number of letters to
his cousins Casimiro and Lucio Piccolo in
which he describes his travels around Europe
(London, Paris, Zurich, Berlin). The
letters, here published in English for the
first time, display much of Lampedusa’s
distinctive style present in his later work:
not only the razor-sharp introspection, but
also a wicked sense of humour, playful in
its description of the comédie humaine.
United and underpinned by the genre of
the novel, Lampedusa’s lifetime obsession,
some letters also read like excerpts from
a Stendhalian travel journal, whilst others
are Pickwickian adventures populated with
comic, exaggerated personalities.
This book is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
This product will be in stock on Thursday 28 October, 2010.
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