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100 1  Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe,|d1896-1957,|eauthor. 
240 10 Short stories.|kSelections.|lEnglish 
245 14 The professor and the siren /|cGiuseppe Tomasi Di 
       Lampedusa ; translated from the Italian by Stephen Twilley
       ; introduction by Marina Warner.|h[Boundless electronic 
       resource] 
264  1 New York :|bNew York Review Books,|c[2014] 
300    1 online resource (xxiv, 69 pages). 
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490 1  New York Review Books classics 
505 0  The professor and the siren -- Joy and the saw -- The 
       blind kittens. 
520    "In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian 
       aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in addition to 
       his internationally celebrated novel, The Leopard, also 
       composed three shorter pieces of fiction that confirm and 
       expand our picture of his brilliant late-blooming talent. 
       In the parable-like "Joy and the Law," a mediocre clerk in
       receipt of an unexpected supplement to his Christmas bonus
       (an awkwardly outsize version of the traditional 
       panettone) finds his visions of domestic bliss upset by 
       unwritten rules of honor and obligation. At the heart of 
       the collection stands "The Siren" and its redoubtable hero,
       Professor La Ciura, the only Hellenist scholar to claim 
       firsthand experience of ancient Greek--from the mouth of 
       the beautiful half-human sea creature he loved in his 
       youth. The volume closes with the last piece of writing 
       completed by the author, "The Blind Kittens," a story 
       originally conceived as the first chapter of a follow-up 
       to The Leopard, a novel that would have traced the post-
       unification emergence of a new agrarian ruling class in 
       Sicily, coarser than its predecessor but equally blind to 
       the inexorable march of change.  This elegant new 
       translation of Lampedusa's complete short fiction, the 
       first by a single hand, updates and corrects previously 
       available English versions"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian 
       aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in addition to 
       his internationally celebrated novel, The Leopard, also 
       composed three shorter pieces of fiction that confirm and 
       expand our picture of his brilliant late-blooming talent. 
       In the parable-like "Joy and the Law," a mediocre clerk in
       receipt of an unexpected supplement to his Christmas bonus
       (an awkwardly outsize version of the traditional 
       panettone) finds his visions of domestic bliss upset by 
       unwritten rules of honor and obligation. At the heart of 
       the collection stands "The Professor and the Siren" and 
       its redoubtable hero, Professor La Ciura, the only 
       Hellenist scholar to claim firsthand experience of ancient
       Greek--from the mouth of the beautiful half-human sea 
       creature he loved in his youth. The volume closes with the
       last piece of writing completed by the author, "The Blind 
       Kittens," a story originally conceived as the first 
       chapter of a follow-up to The Leopard, a novel that would 
       have traced the post-unification emergence of a new 
       agrarian ruling class in Sicily, coarser than its 
       predecessor but equally blind to the inexorable march of 
       change. This elegant new translation of Lampedusa's 
       complete short fiction, the first by a single hand, 
       updates and corrects previously available English 
       versions"--|cProvided by publisher. 
538    Requires Boundless App. 
588    Description based on print version record. 
700 1  Twilley, Stephen,|etranslator. 
776 08 |iElectronic reproduction of (manifestation):|aTomasi di 
       Lampedusa, Giuseppe, 1896-1957.|tProfessor and the siren
       |dNew York : New York Review Books, [2014]|z9781590177198
       |w(DLC)  2013050864|w(OCoLC)861322904 
830  0 New York Review Books classics. 
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