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Course Description

A classic of modern Italian literature, Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece, The Leopard (1958), tells the fascinating story of the decline and fall of Don Fabrizio’s aristocratic line. It is an insightful psychological and sociological study of the history of Italy on its path to unification, of human passions and proneness to self-deception, and of the uniqueness of Sicilian culture. We will explore these themes and the complex relationship between the novel’s protagonist
and its author as revealed in The Leopard and as grasped and creatively interpreted by Steven Price in his recently published semi-fictional story of the last years of Lampedusa’s life.
For our first class, please read pp. 1-88 from The Leopard.

Course Outline

REQUIRED TEXTS
Giuseppe di Lampedusa. The Leopard. Translated by Archibald Colcuhuon. Pantheon, 2007. ISBN 978-0375714795
Steven Price. Lampedusa. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019. ISBN 978-0374212247
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