Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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A lifelong voracious reader, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa became a writer late in his intellectual career. His first public writings were a series of lectures begun in the fall of 1953 on the development of English and, later, French literature. The audience was a select company of young students and only one of the lessons has been published to date: the “Lezioni su Stendhal” (lesson on Stendhal), which appeared in the April, 1959, issue of Paragone. This literary discussion offers as much critical insight into Lampedusa as it does into its...
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