Lampedusa, Steven Price, London: Picador, 328 pages, £14.99 A review of a novel about the writing of a novel may seem too derivative – but when the novel being novelised is Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s mordant 1958 masterpiece The Leopard much could, and should, be forgiven. Luckily, nothing needs to be forgiven in Steven Price’s… Continue reading
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Unending journeys
The Unsettling of Europe – The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present Peter Gatrell, Allen Lane, 2019, 548 pages, £30 Few subjects arouse such atavistic emotions as migration – whether the arrivals come as conquerors or as kin, fleeing ordeals or seeking opportunities. For incomers, migration can represent a dream, a rational choice, an urgent… Continue reading
Home life of a predator – scenes from the Leopard’s lair
Home life of a predator – scenes from the Leopard’s lair Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – A Biography Through Images Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Alma Books, Richmond (Surrey), 2013, 125 pp, £25 It must be at times frustrating to be a considerable academic and author in one’s own right, yet to be known chiefly because of… Continue reading
The Last Leopard – change and permanence in a haunted landscape
The Last Leopard – change and permanence in a haunted landscape The Last Leopard– A Life of Giovanni Tomasi di Lampedusa David Gilmour, Eland, London, 2007, pb, 27pps, £12.99 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) was the last hereditary Prince of Lampedusa, a barren, seven-mile long island situated between Malta and the African coast but belonging… Continue reading
The Leopard at large – Lampedusa’s Letters from London and Europe
The Leopard at Large Letters From London and Europe Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Richmond (Surrey): Alma Books 203 pp., £14.99 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was the last prince of his long and languid line, but soon after his death he became one of the first names in 20th-century Italian letters. The Leopard, his 1958 novel… Continue reading