by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · POINTS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757806432
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«Le Guépard» is the historical novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published by Points in paperback (357 pages, in French).
In 1860s Sicily, an aristocracy already decadent and deaf to change witnesses Garibaldi's landing, which begins the end of its social order. To protect his own, the Prince of Salina consents to the marriage of his nephew Tancrède to Angélica, daughter of an upstart: a concession that marks the decline of the Guépard, the Salina coat of arms.
Winner of the Strega Prize in 1959, it was Tomasi di Lampedusa's only novel. Luchino Visconti adapted the work for film in 1963; the version with Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale won the Palme d'Or.
For readers of historical fiction and Italian literary classics who want to discover the work in French.
Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction.
