stuartfoster19 's review for:

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

4.75

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It’s close to perfect. The seventh chapter particularly is probably the best portrayal of death I have ever read. I do think the jump from the chapter write before that is a little abrupt and I don’t really like when Lampedusa makes cultural references that happened much later than the setting of the book (like to Battleship Potemkin), but they are very, very minor complaints.