Professor and the Siren

Name: Professor and the Siren
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ISBN: 9781590177198

ISBN-10: 1590177193

ISBN-13: 9781590177198

Edition: 2014

Authors: Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Stephen Twilley, Marina Warner

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 6/17/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 5.02" wide x 7.96" long x 0.32" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English