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The Professor and the Siren
Contributor(s): Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di (Author), Twilley, Stephen (Translator), Warner, Marina (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1590177193     ISBN-13: 9781590177198
Publisher: New York Review of Books
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: June 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Biographical
Dewey: 853.914
LCCN: 2013050864
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.8" (0.30 lbs) 104 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
An NYRB Classics Original

In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.

"The Professor and the Siren," like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between erotic love and learning. Professor La Ciura is one of the world's most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life. This Lampedusa's final masterpiece, is accompanied here by the parable "Joy and the Law" and "The Blind Kittens," a story originally conceived as the first chapter of a followup to The Leopard.


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