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Childhood Memories and Other Stories (1961)

por Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment 'Torretta', collects all of Lampedusa's extant shorter fiction and provides a revealing glimpse into the writer's workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece. From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa and the Palazzo Filangeri Cut. at the turn of the twentieth century in 'Childhood Memories' to the delightful fable 'The Siren', from the gently humorous, bitter.sweet tones of 'Joy and the Law' to 'The Blind Kittens' - the first chapter of what was intended to be a sequel to The Leopard - this volume showcases Lampedusa's unparalleled ob.ser.vational powers and narrative skills.… (más)
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Sicilian tales
By sally tarbox on 23 May 2018
Format: Paperback
Published posthumously in 1961, this collection of four works by the author of The Leopard is a really enjoyable read.
Childhood Memories takes the reader vividly to a vanished world as the author recalls the palatial residences of his family (much destroyed in WW2). Huge rooms to explore, faithful retainers, ancient relics; the excursions, recollections of notable events, such as the king's death or a major earthquake...

Then follow two short stories: Joy and the Law follows a poor young clerk returning home with his annual bonus. Most of that is already spoken for, but more thrilling is the giant panettone he has been gifted...

Perhaps the most memorable tale is "The Siren". The young narrator befriends an elderly classics professor; keep on reading as the old man's strange and unaccountable outbursts against the lives of the ordinary folk around him start to make sense when he at lasts reveals a magical interlude during his youth when he encountered a mermaid. This is no Disney character but a very plausible Greek-speaking being...

The last part, "The Blind Kittens"- was a preliminary chapter to a never-completed sequel to The Leopard we find ourselves back among the Sicilian aristocracy, with all its faults and failings.

Definitely worth reading, especially for Leopard afficionados. ( )
  starbox | May 22, 2018 |
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(Introduction) I have very recently (mid-June 1955) reread Henri Brulard for the first time since the long-gone year of 1922.
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment 'Torretta', collects all of Lampedusa's extant shorter fiction and provides a revealing glimpse into the writer's workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece. From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa and the Palazzo Filangeri Cut. at the turn of the twentieth century in 'Childhood Memories' to the delightful fable 'The Siren', from the gently humorous, bitter.sweet tones of 'Joy and the Law' to 'The Blind Kittens' - the first chapter of what was intended to be a sequel to The Leopard - this volume showcases Lampedusa's unparalleled ob.ser.vational powers and narrative skills.

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