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BOOK OF A LIFETIME: The price of changing those spots; THE LEOPARD GIUSEPPE DI LAMPEDUSA.(Features)
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November 19, 2004| Author:
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Byline: Susan Greenfield
"Things have to change in order that they can stay the same." That is the theme of Lampedusa's The Leopard (Harvill, pounds 6.99), which, more than any other work of modern literature I have ever read, unflinchingly portrays human nature in tooth and claw. Sex and death are the cornerstones of the narrative, dealt with in an unsentimental way as the story unfolds in mid-19th-century Sicily.
The novel can be taken at various levels: that of a very well-told story during the unification of Italy, a time of political and social upheaval. The reader ...
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