A review by codexmendoza
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

5.0

Fantastic, wonderful, truly one of the great works of our time that I have arrived at woefully late. I knew it was good from the first page; what a perceptive eye the narration has, the way it manages to find beauty, decay, irony, and amusement in the sweep of a single sentence. The characters, especially the endangered titular Leopard, are also carefully drawn and their personal ambitions and failures blend with the ideas Lampedusa conveys about the movement of Italian history and the spirit of Sicilians without becoming crass allegory. An intact and perfect vision.