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The Professor and the Siren or The Siren (original Italian title: La Sirena) is a novella by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It is sometimes known as Lighea, the name of the title character, which was the title chosen by the writer's widow.
21 nov 2022 · At the heart of the collection stands "The Professor and 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.
In The Professor and the Siren, an elderly, world-renowned professor of Hellenism shares with a young journalist an encounter with a siren in his youth—a meditation on love, loss, death, learning, and culture, this story was absolutely outstanding.
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9 ago 2014 · In “The Professor and the Siren,” Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, picks up these echoes when he evokes a passionate love affair unfolding by the sea in the ferocious heat of the dog days in 1887.
Book Review: 'The Professor and the Siren' by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa In a pendant story to Lampedusa's magnificent novel, a Sicilian student has a tryst with a mermaid.
“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.
20 dic 2023 · At the heart of the collection stands "The Professor and 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.
