[ExI] authors, italian and otherwise

[Stefano Vaj]

On 17 May 2010 21:19, scerir <scerir at libero.it> wrote:
> Spike spiked:
>> Question please: if you wished to explain your native culture to someone
>> outside, which book would you recommend and why?
>
> 'The Leopard' (Italian: 'Il Gattopardo') a novel by
> Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published,
> posthumously, in 1958.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard
> http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808645786/info
> http://www.communitywalk.com/the_leopard_map/map/359495
>
> Why? It is a masterpiece.

It definitely is, and Luchino Visconti's movie is not bad either.

Even though my grandmother, as somebody grown in Milan from a Lombard
family, did perceive the Sicilian world depicted therein at least as
remote as a story taking place in Japan... :-)

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Stefano Vaj