David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. "The Leopard" describes the golden era of the nineteenth-century Sicily in all its sensual, fading, aristocratic glory. But beneath the surface lurk Sicily's millenial contagions - corruption, brutality and inequality. Who wrote this masterpiece, this work of art? the answer is as unlikely as one might hope. This is a fascinating meditation on what it is that makes a writer.
Product details
- Paperback | 334 pages
- 135 x 215 x 17.78mm | 344.73g
- 02 Jul 2008
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- New edition
- New edition
- Illustrations, map
- 0955010519
- 9780955010514
- 201,719
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