false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176424490m/625094.jpg 625094 52 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." <p> Giuseppe di Lampedusa, also an astronomer and a Sicilian prince, was 58 when he started to write <i>The Leopard,</i> 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 <i>The Leopard,</i> though he did live long enough to see it rejected as unpublishable. 1132275 book 1958 The Leopard total:872|5:321|4:290|3:194|2:50|1:17| 872 3464 1580 146 5 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 01:34:36 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 01:30:27 -0700 2008 Gone with the Wind,” it is also a “Fathers and Sons,...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Mar 28 12:06:26 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 12:40:48 -0700 2009 The Leopard, lets the reader try on the skin of the titular character: the last king in a declining aristocracy. It reminded me of Under the Volcano. I was pushed to empathize with the last leonine lord of Sicily as intimately as I did with the alcoholic diplomat in U...more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 23:51:52 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 00:53:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 20:47:25 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 18:16:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 20 00:39:22 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 01:26:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 12:59:25 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 13:15:54 -0700 2009
Que cambie todo para que nada cambie. El autor nos describe los últimos momentos de la Italia borbónica, su ajetreada transición a la monarquía de Victor Manuel II, con...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Nov 14 03:26:46 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 03:27:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 15:33:54 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 17:53:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:56:25 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 14:13:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 06:45:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 06:52:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 17:58:34 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 13:14:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 14:02:21 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 14:13:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Sep 02 00:47:22 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 13:41:42 -0800 2009 1
Beginning in 1860 as Sicily is being annexed as a state of Italy, Prince Fabrizio watches his beloved island change and more importantly stay the same, over the cours...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 06:53:10 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 03:26:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 10:40:24 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:33:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 13:44:38 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 17:54:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 16 04:00:25 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 04:23:36 -0700 2008 Then I went to Sicily (Italy's best-guarded secret because it's NOT really Italian!!!)in 1999 to visit Alfonso's relatives and in Palermo foun...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 20:11:08 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 20:46:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 04 16:35:19 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 04 11:53:25 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 04 16:35:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 31 15:41:21 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 04:43:01 -0700 2008
The leopard of the title is the Prince of Salina, whos...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=625094