The Professor and the Siren The Professor and the Siren

The Professor and the Siren

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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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
June 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
104
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
684
KB
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