Description or summary of the book: 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 the nineteenth-century Sicily in all its sensual, fading, aristocratic glory. But beneath the surface lurk Sicily's millenial contagions - corruption, brutality and inequality. Who wrote this masterpiece, this work of art? the answer is as unlikely as one might hope. This is a fascinating meditation on what it is that makes a writer.
Estimated reading time (average reader): 20H46M56S
Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Biography: Literary, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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