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A carregar... The Professor and the Siren (1961)por Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. An enjoyable little story, moderately thought provoking, not nearly as masterful as The Leopard. ( ) Three Stories Review of the English language translation by Stephen Twilley published 2014 by NYRB Classics translated from the Italian original "Racconti|" (Stories) (1961) I noted my issues with this NYRB Classics edition of the 3 Lampedusa short stories (which are all that exist) in my review of the Estonian language edition Jutustused (Stories) (2017). By itself, the Twilley translation is perfectly fine, but the nuances of a more authentic translation with foreign (ie. non-Italian) words left untranslated and explained in the footnotes are missed here. As are any contextual historical information about persons, places and events mentioned in the text. Still I do always love the NYRB designs and overall editing framing of their books. The Introduction (see below) is especially excellent on the subject of the lead story The Professor and the Siren (usually just titled Siren or Lighea (her name). NYRB also provides a two page listing of related books. Trivia and Link A version of the Introductory Essay by Marina Warner in the above NYRB Classics (2014) edition is available at The Paris Review here (August 2014). The link was active as of March 2020. The first story is about a famous classics professor named senator La Ciura, who, despite the fact that he is an irascible curmudgeon, befriends a young newspaper reporter. They find that they are both Sicilian and thus begins a friendship between this unlikely pair. After they have forged this friendship, the senator goes on a trip to Spain but before he sets sail, he tells the reporter about an important experience he had when he was 24 that had a profound impact on his life. The tale the senator tells is passionate and descriptive and has a delightfully unexpected twist. The second story tells the heartwarming tale of a modest accountant on his way home from the office with the bonus he received from his company for Christmas. The final story is about Don Bastassano, a man who is obsessed with acquiring lands on the island of Sicily. He keeps a detailed map of all these lands which had been acquired through less than scrupulous means. He becomes the subject of gossip among the other nobles who like to speculate about the don’s amount of wealth, property and his personal habits. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in addition to his internationally celebrated novel, The Leopard, also composed three shorter pieces of fiction that confirm and expand our picture of his brilliant late-blooming talent. In the parable-like "Joy and the Law," a mediocre clerk in receipt of an unexpected supplement to his Christmas bonus (an awkwardly outsize version of the traditional panettone) finds his visions of domestic bliss upset by unwritten rules of honor and obligation. At the heart of the collection stands "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. The volume closes with the last piece of writing completed by the author, "The Blind Kittens," a story originally conceived as the first chapter of a follow-up to The Leopard, a novel that would have traced the post-unification emergence of a new agrarian ruling class in Sicily, coarser than its predecessor but equally blind to the inexorable march of change. This elegant new translation of Lampedusa's complete short fiction, the first by a single hand, updates and corrects previously available English versions"--"In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in addition to his internationally celebrated novel, The Leopard, also composed three shorter pieces of fiction that confirm and expand our picture of his brilliant late-blooming talent. In the parable-like "Joy and the Law," a mediocre clerk in receipt of an unexpected supplement to his Christmas bonus (an awkwardly outsize version of the traditional panettone) finds his visions of domestic bliss upset by unwritten rules of honor and obligation. 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. The volume closes with the last piece of writing completed by the author, "The Blind Kittens," a story originally conceived as the first chapter of a follow-up to The Leopard, a novel that would have traced the post-unification emergence of a new agrarian ruling class in Sicily, coarser than its predecessor but equally blind to the inexorable march of change. This elegant new translation of Lampedusa's complete short fiction, the first by a single hand, updates and corrects previously available English versions"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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