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18 mag 2014 · This Professor is learned, well-off and accomplished and therefore he is something to be amazed at. By contrasting this human myth of the upper class with the myths of the Greek pantheon, Lampedusa shows the reader his own desire to have something to admire. He contrasts beautifully written prose with stark and sometimes disgusting images,
At the heart of the collection stands "The Siren" and its redoubtable hero, Professor La Ciura, the only Hellenist scholar to claim firsthand experience of ancient Greek'from the mouth of the beautiful half-human sea creature he loved in his youth.
“The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the pas In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.
17 giu 2014 · “The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between erotic love and learning. Professor La Ciura is one of the world’s most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life.
- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Professor La Ciura is one of the world’s most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life. This Lampedusa’s final masterpiece, is accompanied here by the parable “Joy and the Law” and “The Blind Kittens,” a story originally conceived as the first chapter of a followup to The Leopard .
17 giu 2014 · “The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between erotic love and learning. Professor La Ciura is one of the world’s most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life.
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
