One after another, each scene is finely and deftly drawn, making this an immersive experience. An added pleasure was the favourable mentions of Luchino Visconti in the last chapter. I love his writing which I find so elegant, and he is a master at creating setting and atmosphere. However, I was attracted to this novel because, like so many others, There is a magical book about a magical Island: il Gattopardo.
I ended up liking it a lot, but it took me a while to accustom myself to the musings of an “old” man (he was only in his 50s) who recognizes that the world has changed dramatically and he is redundant. I suspected it might be based on a real man but I wasn't sure until I looked it up after finishing and holy shirtballs it was all true!I thoroughly enjoyed this book. "Lampedusa is a beautiful novel, lyrical and wise." This is a moody, beautifully written fact based novel that imagines the final days of Giuseppi Tomasi, the author of the celebrated novel, The Leopard. The book is breathtaking. This novel is very different, set mostly in Sicily, tracing the melancholy life of Giuseppi Tomasi di Lampedusa, a local prince, as he reviews his experiences over the years, in the process of setting to write an epic novel which became "The Leopard," the most popular book in postwar Italy, with wide international sales.I am pleasantly surprised and very glad that this book was long-listed for 2019 Giller Prize--One of Canada's many literary awards.
Historical fiction - a book about a man writing a book. The book chronicles the changes in Sicily during the Risorgimento, when revolutionaries as Garibaldi and Mazzini unified Italy and created the country as it still is today.
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Let’s be honest: It’s a lot of pressure to pick your book club’s next read. I am super tired of these fake deep books where the author tries to show how cultured and learned he is by asking us to care about the redundant philosophizing of a 58 year old main character who can’t stop leering at young wmn and who gets weird about his own aunt’s breasts.I'm not a fan of historical fiction--in my experience, all too often the characters think, speak, and act like 21st century people rather than characters true to the century and setting. Sicily, after the devastation of the Second World War. So many aspects of this book are notable: the style of writing, the characters, the setting. it is not a novel to be read quickly, nor should it be. I want to meet up with people who want to talk about these topics. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations He only wrote one novel, The Leopard, which wasn't published until after his death but was celebrated as one of the greatest Italian works of literature. Steven Price is a brilliantly gifted writer, but much like his fellow countryman Michael Ondaatje, his poetry--see both his "Anatomy of Keys" (2006) and "Omens in the Year of the Ox" (2012)--is distinctly superior to his fiction. Published Are you there?