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»Der Leopard« gehört schon bald nach seinem Erscheinen 1958 zur Weltliteratur. Inspiriert von der eigenen Familiengeschichte, gelingt Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa der größte Italienroman unserer Zeit und eine schillernde Hommage an das Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit melancholischer Ironie schildert er den Niedergang des sizilianischen Adelsgeschlechts um Don Fabrizio, Fürst Salina. Die alte Ordnung ist in Gefahr: Tancredi, der Neffe und Ziehsohn des Fürsten, heiratet die verführerische, aber bürgerliche Angelica - das Ende der Feudalherrschaft kündigt sich an.
Genau sechzig...

In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment 'Torretta', collects all of Lampedusa's extant shorter fiction and provides a revealing glimpse into the writer's workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece.

From the atmospheric recollections...

The Sicilian prince, Don Fabrizio, hero of Lampedusa's great and only novel, is described as enormous in size, in intellect, and in sensuality. The book he inhabits shares his dimensions in its evocation of an aristocracy confronting democratic upheaval and the new force of nationalism. In the decades since its publication shortly after the author's death in 1957, The Leopard has come to be regarded as the twentieth century's greatest historical fiction.

Introduction by David Gilmour; Translation by Archibald Colquhoun

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