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The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Read this from cover to cover in a single day, which I haven't done for ages - thanks to South Western Railway for a disrupted journey home from Guildford. The novel feels like a beautifully detailed vignette of a moment in time, with the dwindling of Europe's old order experienced through the faded grandeur of one noble house and its ageing patriarch. Loved the intrigue, the descriptions of the Sicilian hinterlands and the reflections on the role of religion, nobility and the new political forces in Italy.
Don Fabrizio himself is explored in considerable, and humane detail. Can't really say the same for his poor old wife or many of the other characters in the book; feel like Concetta and Angelica merited a less superficial treatment, although that is perhaps Fabrizio's gaze coming into play. The Middle->End phase felt like it was missing a few chapters, quite an abrupt transition. Prose/translation is delectable
Don Fabrizio himself is explored in considerable, and humane detail. Can't really say the same for his poor old wife or many of the other characters in the book; feel like Concetta and Angelica merited a less superficial treatment, although that is perhaps Fabrizio's gaze coming into play. The Middle->End phase felt like it was missing a few chapters, quite an abrupt transition. Prose/translation is delectable