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The Professor and the Siren
The Professor and the Siren | Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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An NYRB Classics OriginalIn the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.“The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between erotic love and learning. Professor La Ciura is one of the world’s most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life. This Lampedusa’s final masterpiece, is accompanied here by the parable “Joy and the Law” and “The Blind Kittens,” a story originally conceived as the first chapter of a followup to The Leopard.
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Short stories translated from Italian. Quite liked the main one, in which an old man reminisces about the three weeks of sex he had with a siren that were so perfect he never slept with a woman again.

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@vivastory mentioned The Leopard, so I wanted to give a shout-out to the collection of Lampedusa's short works published by NYR books. The title story, The Professor and the Siren, is absolutely stunning: gorgeous, sensual, and shocking. Highly recommended!

vivastory I will definitely be checking this out. Plus it's a NYRB! 6y
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