The Leopard

(by G. T. di Lampedusa)

The times, they are a-changing.  But the Prince of Lampedusa, understands that “everything needs to change, so everything can stay the same.”

Fragments aside, this is the only book the author, himself a Sicilian Prince, had in him and it is a jewel.  Clear, unhurried, conventional in structure, it shows all the hallowed power of the novel in evoking time, place and mild regret for things that pass.

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Its nostalgic pessimism skewers Italian politics and history, without being political or historical, which turned-off publishers in the author’s lifetime, and seemed to enrage the partisan literati at the time of its posthumous publication.  [See also the magnificent film version by Visconti.]

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