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Childhood Memories and Other Stories (Pb)

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa.


  • Alma Books - Alma Classics
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment 'Torretta', collects all of Lampedusa's extant shorter fiction.

ISBN 9781847493989 | E | PB
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Publisher Alma Books - Alma Classics
ISBN 9781847493989
Publication date January 2015
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 200 x 130 mm
Pages 288
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Description

• First complete and unexpurgated translation of Lampedusa’s uncollected shorter prose

• Written at around the same time as The Leopard, ‘Childhood Memories’ reveals the biographical and psychological background of Lampedusa’s masterpiece

• Contains the previously unpublished piece ‘Torretta’

• Includes the stories ‘Joy and the Law’ and ‘The Siren’, as well as ‘The Blind Kittens’, the beginning of a sequel to The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment ‘Torretta’, collects all of Lampedusa’s extant shorter fiction and provides a revealing glimpse into the writer’s workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece.

From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa and the Palazzo Filangeri Cutò at the turn of the twentieth century in ‘Childhood Memories’ to the delightful fable ‘The Siren’, from the gently humorous, bitter­sweet tones of ‘Joy and the Law’ to ‘The Blind Kittens’ – the first chapter of what was intended to be a sequel to The Leopard – this volume showcases Lampedusa’s unparalleled ob­ser­vational powers and narrative skills.

Childhood Memories and Other Stories (Pb)

Childhood Memories and Other Stories (Pb)

€11.95