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Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe / Di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi / Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di / Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Giuseppe)
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El Gatopardoby Giuseppe Tomasi Di LampedusaISBN 8420666343 (84-206-6634-3)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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The Leopardby Giuseppe Tomasi Di LampedusaISBN 1860461913 (1-86046-191-3)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leopard'Book summary:In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: "Some huge irrational disaster is in the making." All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses the ruin of the class and inheritance that already disgust him. His favorite nephew, Tancredi, proffers the paradox, "If we want things to stay as they are, they will have to change," but Don Fabrizio would rather take refuge in skepticism or astronomy, "the sublime routine of the skies."
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, also an astronomer and a Sicilian prince, was 58 when he started to write The Leopard, though he had had it in his mind for 25 years. E. M. Forster called his work "one of the great lonely books." What renders it so beautiful and so discomfiting is its creator's grasp of human frailty and, equally, of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." The author died at the age of 60, soon after finishing The Leopard, though he did live long enough to see it rejected as unpublishable. [via]
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- The Leopard: ISBN 184343010X (1-84343-010-X)
Hardcover, Random House - Leopard: ISBN 1857150236 (1-85715-023-6)
Hardcover, Everyman - The Leopard: ISBN 0099512157 (0-09-951215-7)
Softcover, Random House - The Leopard: ISBN 0679731210 (0-679-73121-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Leopard: ISBN 0002713691 (0-00-271369-1)
Hardcover, Random House - The Leopard: ISBN 0006121861 (0-00-612186-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - The Leopard: ISBN 0006135307 (0-00-613530-7)
Softcover, Fontana - The Leopard: ISBN 0006164374 (0-00-616437-4)
Softcover, Fontana - The Leopard: ISBN 0394749499 (0-394-74949-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Leopard: ISBN 0394756681 (0-394-75668-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Leopard: ISBN 0002714590 (0-00-271459-0)
Hardcover, Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited - The Leopard: ISBN 1860461913 (1-86046-191-3)
Softcover, Random House
- The Leopard: ISBN 184343010X (1-84343-010-X)
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The Leopardby Archibald Colquhoun, Giuseppe Tomasi Di LampedusaISBN 067940757X (0-679-40757-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leopard'Book summary:The Leopard is set in Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification is coming violently into being, but it transcends the historical-novel classification. E.M. Forster called it, instead, "a novel which happens to take place in history." Lampedusa's Sicily is a land where each social gesture is freighted with nuance, threat, and nostalgia, and his skeptical protagonist, Don Fabrizio, is uniquely placed to witness all and alter absolutely nothing. Like his creator, the prince is an aristocrat and an astronomer, a man "watching the ruin of his own class and his own inheritance without ever making, still less wanting to make, any move toward saving it." Far better to take refuge in the night skies.
What renders The Leopard so beautiful, and so despairing, is Lampedusa's grasp of human frailty and his vision of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." Though the author had long had the book in mind, he didn't begin writing it until he was in his late 50s. He died at 60, soon after it was rejected as unpublishable.
Archibald Colquhoun's lyrical translation also contains 70 more precious pages of Lampedusa--a memoir, a short story, and the first chapter of a novel. In "Places of My Infancy" the author warns that "the reader (who won't exist) must expect to be led meandering through a lost Earthly Paradise. If it bores him. I don't mind." Luckily, the reader does exist; even more luckily, boredom is not an option. [via]
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The Leopard: With a Memory and Two Storiesby Archibald Colquhoun, Giuseppe Tomasi Di LampedusaISBN 0002714671 (0-00-271467-1)
Softcover, Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leopard: With a Memory and Two Stories'Book summary:In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: "Some huge irrational disaster is in the making." All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses the ruin of the class and inheritance that already disgust him. His favorite nephew, Tancredi, proffers the paradox, "If we want things to stay as they are, they will have to change," but Don Fabrizio would rather take refuge in skepticism or astronomy, "the sublime routine of the skies."
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, also an astronomer and a Sicilian prince, was 58 when he started to write The Leopard, though he had had it in his mind for 25 years. E. M. Forster called his work "one of the great lonely books." What renders it so beautiful and so discomfiting is its creator's grasp of human frailty and, equally, of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." The author died at the age of 60, soon after finishing The Leopard, though he did live long enough to see it rejected as unpublishable. [via]
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Letteratura Ingleseby Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa , Nicoletta PoloISBN 880434587X (88-04-34587-X)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori
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The Siren and Selected Writingsby Archibald Colquhoun, Guido Waldman, David Gilmour, Giuseppe Tomasi Di LampedusaISBN 1860460216 (1-86046-021-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Siren and Selected Writingsby Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun, Guido Waldman, David GilmourISBN 1860460224 (1-86046-022-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Der GattopardoISBN 3492045847 (3-492-04584-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Gattopardo'Book summary:Wer immer in der Vergangenheit die deutsche Übersetzung des Sizilienromans Der Leopard des Herzogs von Parma und Fürsten von Lampedusa Giuseppe Tomasi verschlungen hat, wird beschwören können, eines der schönsten Bücher gelesen zu haben, das Italien im 20. Jahrhundert der Weltliteratur schenkte. Und doch ist er gleich einem doppelten Betrug aufgesessen. Zum ersten war Der Leopard nicht vollständig. Und zum anderen war sein Titel überaus unglücklich übersetzt.
Giò Waeckerlin Indunis herrlich schwungvolle Übertragung macht nun gleich mit beiden Irrtümern Schluss. Zum einen, indem sie den Text um zwei umstrittene, endlich von den Erben Tomasis freigegebene Fragmente erweitert und den Roman fast fünfzig Jahre nach seiner posthumen Erstveröffentlichung komplett präsentiert. Und zum anderen dadurch, dass sie ihm seinen ironischen Titel zurückgab. Denn der Gattopardo ist ein kleiner Bruder des Leoparden, des Wappentieres der Salina, der im Unterschied zu seinem gewaltigen Verwandten in der Nacht umherschleicht und aufgrund einer anatomischen Merkwürdigkeit nicht brüllen kann. So bekommt das Meisterwerk vom Glanz und Untergang eines Fürstengeschlechts im italienischen Freiheitskampf nach der Landung Garibaldis bereits zu Anfang endlich wieder jene humorvoll-melancholische Note, die es bis zum Schluss bestimmt.
Auch sonst wirkt Inunis Übersetzung so stark und frisch, dass selbst Freunde des Leoparden "ihren" Roman wieder neu entdecken können. Allen anderen -- auch denen, die nur die Visconti-Verfilmung kennen -- sei Der Gattopardo wärmstens ans Herz gelegt. Eine bessere Gelegenheit, einen der größten italienischen Klassiker des 20. Jahrhunderts kennen zu lernen, gab es noch nie. --Isa Gerck [via]
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Ich sucht' ein Glück, das es nicht gibt. Byron, Shelley, Keats. SaltoISBN 3803111366 (3-8031-1136-6)
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Der LeopardISBN 3492203205 (3-492-20320-5)
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Morgenröte der englischen Moderne. SaltoISBN 3803111544 (3-8031-1154-4)
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Shakespeare. SaltoISBN 3803111439 (3-8031-1143-9)
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Die SireneISBN 3492244017 (3-492-24401-7)
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Letteratura Ingleseby Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa , Nicoletta PoloISBN 8804330503 (88-04-33050-3)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori
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Opereby Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa , Nicoletta PoloISBN 8804400765 (88-04-40076-5)
Hardcover, A.Mondadori
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El Gatopardo / The Leopardby Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa , Fernandez GutierrezISBN 8420657158 (84-206-5715-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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El Gatopardo/ The Tiger-Catby Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa , Fernandez GutierrezISBN 8437606411 (84-376-0641-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Y LlewpartISBN 0906906040 (0-906906-04-0)
Softcover, Academi Gymreig
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El Guepardby Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa , Llorenðc VillalongaISBN 8473291042 (84-7329-104-2)
Hardcover, Club Editor
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