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Tag Archives: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Q&A With NYRB Classics Editor Edwin Frank & Translator Stephen Twilley
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Q&A With NYRB Classics Editor Edwin Frank & Translator Stephen Twilley

Posted on July 23, 2014 by editor • Leave a comment

Tomasi di Lampedusa’s language is relatively spare and direct but still formal and correct, and sprinkled with archaic terms. It is carnal and sophisticated, slyly humorous but still possessed of a kind of gravity and grace. Continue reading →

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: A Burst of Sicilian Sun
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: A Burst of Sicilian Sun

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Sonya Chung

Lampedusa’s eventual success at portraying a layered, multi-caste society . . . is testament to the power of literature to shape the imaginative and emotional capacity of a devoted reader, no matter how sheltered his daily life.

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BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “Sweet at Sixty”
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BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “Sweet at Sixty”

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Vicraj Gill

Lee Monks of literary blog The Mookse and the Gripes describes Gardam as “a pretty much unanimously revered writer” that he “had yet to read a word of” before he picked up the recently released The Stories of Jane Gardam. Continue reading →

BEST OF BLOOM: André Aciman’s Search for Lost Dream Time
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BEST OF BLOOM: André Aciman’s Search for Lost Dream Time

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Jennifer Acker

He has been hailed as a writer who excels in the investigation of memory, but it’s not a fixed past that offers the siren’s call; it is a past that dreams of and anticipates a future full of longing for itself. Continue reading →

In Search of Lost Dream Time: Two New Books by André Aciman
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In Search of Lost Dream Time: Two New Books by André Aciman

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Lisa Peet • 2 Comments

by Jennifer Acker

He has been hailed as a writer who excels in the investigation of memory, but it’s not a fixed past that offers the siren’s call; it is a past that dreams of and anticipates a future full of longing for itself. Continue reading →

In Her Own Words: Tillie Olsen
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In Her Own Words: Tillie Olsen

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Lisa Peet • Leave a comment

by Vicraj Gill

“The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.” Continue reading →

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