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Item Number: 110565
Title: Letters from London and Europe (1925-30)
Author: Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781846881114
Description: Edited and with an Introduction by Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi. Translated by J.G. Nichols. Richmond: Alma Books, 2010. 22cm., hardcover, 200pp. illus. English translation of "Viaggio in Europa," pub. Milan 2006. Summary: The Leopard, published posthumously in 1958, was one of the most important works of fiction to appear in the Italian language in the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1930, its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, wrote a number of letters to his cousins Casimiro and Lucio Piccolo in which he describes his travels around Europe (London, Paris, Zurich, Berlin). The letters, here published in English for the first time, display much of Lampedusa’s distinctive style present in his later work: not only the razor-sharp introspection, but also a wicked sense of humour, playful in its description of the comédie humaine. United and underpinned by the genre of the novel, Lampedusa’s lifetime obsession, some letters also read like excerpts from a Stendhalian travel journal, whilst others are Pickwickian adventures populated with comic, exaggerated personalities.
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