A review by huskey
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

5.0

Starts off as simply wry, but soon reveals a very deliberate, stately structure, which focuses in precisely on its protagonist's psychology, yet expands the scope to a nearly existential scale. The moment it depicts, the constitution of the modern nation-state of Italy and the immediate fallout, might seem niche but the sentiments of the time - around factionalism, the sudden obsession with capital and social standing - reverberate in a modern world built around corporate image making and cultural largess.