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The Leopard Il Gattopardo
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Author : David Weir
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-04
The Leopard Il Gattopardo written by David Weir and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-04 with Performing Arts categories.
Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy during the Risorgimento. The film, starring Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon, met with success upon its initial release, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes and having a successful theatrical run in Europe. Despite this, however, it did not do well with English-speaking audiences, and eventually even fell out of favour with Italian audiences, who took issue with the way Risorgimento history was represented. David Weir's study of the film seeks to understand the film's paradoxical place in Italian film history. He argues that Visconti's use of artifice, narrative and history, all aspects that came to be criticised, were in fact, essential to his cinematic art, and can all be understood as strengths of the film. Providing a scene-by-scene analysis of the film, as well as illuminating its relationship to the Lampedusa novel from which it was adapted, Weir suggests that Visconti's film goes beyond mere adaptation, using the form of the novel for cinematic purposes and making The Leopard a cinematic novel in its own right. He goes on to situate the film within Visconti's career, questioning whether the uneven reception of the film reflects the paradox of Visconti's social status as a Marxist aristocrat and his position as an auteur director whose films borrowed heavily from the decadent tradition, while at the same time professing allegiance to the Italian Communist Party.
The Leopard
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Author : Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 1991-10-15
The Leopard written by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-15 with Fiction categories.
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • “A majestic, melancholy, and beautiful novel” (The New Yorker), THE LEOPARD is one of the best-selling Italian novels of the twentieth century and an acclaimed masterpiece of world literature. This beautiful hardcover edition, translated by Archibald Colquhoun, also includes two short stories and a brief memoir of the author’s childhood. Set in Sicily in the 1860s, during the tumult of Italian unification, THE LEOPARD tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, fading aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of revolution and democracy. Its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who was the last in a line of Sicilian princes, wrote the novel in the 1950s, inspired by the decline of his own family. Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, remains skeptical and stoic as he finds himself beset by civil war, social change, and his family’s loss of wealth and status. While his beloved nephew, Tancredi, more practical and flexible than he, joins the nationalist rebels and marries the ambitious daughter of a newly rich upstart, Don Fabrizio takes refuge in his love of astronomy, gazing at the unchanging stars while the world as he has known it crumbles around him. The dramatic sweep and richness of Lampedusa’s observation, his seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and his sure grasp of human frailty imbue THE LEOPARD with its melancholy beauty and power. “No novel in Italian literature has aroused so much passion or caused so much argument… The book is more than the memorable invocation of a certain place in a certain epoch. It is a work of art that will survive, long after the last sad palaces of Palermo have gone, because it deals with the central problems of the human experience.” —from the Introduction by David Gilmour "The genius of its author and the thrill it gives the reader are probably for all time."—The New York Times Book Review "A masterwork . . . A superb novel in the great tradition and the grand manner."—Newsweek Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
The Leopard
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Author : Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2013-10-02
The Leopard written by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-02 with Fiction categories.
Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and the grasp of human frailty imbue The Leopard with its particular melancholy beauty and power, and place it among the greatest historical novels of our time. Although Giuseppe di Lampedusa had long had the book in mind, he began writing it only in his late fifties; he died at age sixty, soon after the manuscript was rejected as unpublishable. In his introduction, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Lampedusa's nephew, gives us a detailed history of the initial publication and the various editions that followed. And he includes passages Lampedusa wrote for the book that were omitted by the original Italian editors. Here, finally, is the definitive edition of this brilliant and timeless novel. (Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun.)
The Leopard
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Author : Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2007-11-06
The Leopard written by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-06 with Fiction categories.
Set in the 1860's, tells the story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
The Leopard Il Gattopardo
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Author : David Weir
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-04
The Leopard Il Gattopardo written by David Weir and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-04 with Performing Arts categories.
Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy during the Risorgimento. The film, starring Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon, met with success upon its initial release, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes and having a successful theatrical run in Europe. Despite this, however, it did not do well with English-speaking audiences, and eventually even fell out of favour with Italian audiences, who took issue with the way Risorgimento history was represented. David Weir's study of the film seeks to understand the film's paradoxical place in Italian film history. He argues that Visconti's use of artifice, narrative and history, all aspects that came to be criticised, were in fact, essential to his cinematic art, and can all be understood as strengths of the film. Providing a scene-by-scene analysis of the film, as well as illuminating its relationship to the Lampedusa novel from which it was adapted, Weir suggests that Visconti's film goes beyond mere adaptation, using the form of the novel for cinematic purposes and making The Leopard a cinematic novel in its own right. He goes on to situate the film within Visconti's career, questioning whether the uneven reception of the film reflects the paradox of Visconti's social status as a Marxist aristocrat and his position as an auteur director whose films borrowed heavily from the decadent tradition, while at the same time professing allegiance to the Italian Communist Party.
The Leopard
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Author : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Leopard written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Aristocracy (Social class) categories.
A Study Guide For Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa S The Leopard
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2016-07-12
A Study Guide For Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa S The Leopard written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide for Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's "The Leopard," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
The Last Leopard
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Author : David Gilmour
language : en
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Release Date : 2007
The Last Leopard written by David Gilmour and has been published by Eland Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 nineteenth-century Sicily: its sensual, fading, aristocratic glory and its corruption, brutality, and inequality lurking beneath the surface. Who wrote this masterpiece, this work of art? The answer is as unlikely as one might hope. A fascinating meditation on what it is that makes a writer.
The Leopard
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Author : Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1993-03-15
The Leopard written by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-15 with categories.
In the spring of 1860 Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of Sicilian acres and hundreds of subjects in mingled splendour and squalor. But echoes of the new political movements on the Italian mainland are already being heard. Garibaldi is about to arrive; a revolution is about to begin. The Leopard is about to change...
The Leopard Vintage Classic Europeans Series
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Author : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-11-27
The Leopard Vintage Classic Europeans Series written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with Fiction categories.
The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily, by day the rattle of firing squads and by night the flickering lights of bonfires lit by rebel bands. Prince Fabrizio knows that beneath these outward signs of transformation, the sensuality, languor and corruption of his native land will never change. But can his family’s ancient power endure? Lampedusa’s macabre myth remains astounding relevant, reflecting any modern edifice of power and money just as surely as it shows us a corner of Italy long ago. TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN ‘Beguiling…irresistible…The Leopard will continue to ensnare minds, and not only in Italy’ Guardian