The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa - Brossura

Gilmour, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0955010519 ISBN 13: 9780955010514

Casa editrice: Eland Pub Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

David Gilmour's books include award-winning biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. He is also the author of 'The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj' and of several books on Spain and the Middle East. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, he is a contributor to the Spectator and the New York Review of Books. He is currently writing a book on Giuseppe Verdi and the unification of Italy.

The Last Leopard won the Marsh Biography Award in 1989.

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• Editore: Eland Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0955010519
• ISBN 13: 9780955010514
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 249