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Letters from London and Europe (1925-30)

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#331365-VD23
Titel	Letters from London and Europe (1925-30)
Auteur	Tomasi de Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Richmond : Alma Books
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	1846881110
ISBN13	9781846881114
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The Leopard , published posthumously in 1958, was one of the most important works of fiction to appear in the Italian language in the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1930, its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, wrote a number of letters to his cousins Casimiro and Lucio Piccolo in which he describes his travels around Europe (London, Paris, Zurich, Berlin). The letters, here published for the first time, display much of Lampedusa's distinctive style present in his later work; not only the razor sharp introspection, but also a wicked sense of humor, playful in its description of the comedie humaine. United and underpinned by the genre of the novel, Lampedusa's lifetime obsession, some letters also read like excerpts from a Stendhalian travel journal, whilst others are pickwickian a... (Lees verder)dventures populated with comic, exaggerated personalities.
Pagina's	203
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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