Places of My Infancy - Brossura

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811220389 ISBN 13: 9780811220385

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2012

Riassunto

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s brief but brilliant writing career lasted a mere two years before he succumbed to lung cancer. In that time he produced one novel (The Leopard), three stories, and the beginning of a memoir, Places of my Infancy – a “tour” of Lampedusa’s family estates in Sicily at the turn of 20thcentury. “For me childhood was a lost paradise,” writes Lampedusa. “I was king of the home.” Lampedusa gives lush, intimate descriptions of the estates in town and country: the home with its one hundred rooms, its garden with fountains full of eels, its church, its theater where wandering “country” theater groups would perform, the maids and the groundskeepers, and Lampedusa’s own family members. Each detail – from his mother’s silver comb to his father’s camera (owned “in 1900!”) unlocks a memory of some event from the era.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0811220389
• ISBN 13: 9780811220385
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 70