The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
No announcement yet when the Netflix series based on The Leopard (1958) will appear on our screens. The historical drama will star Italian actor and director Kim Rossi Stuart as the aging Sicilian aristocrat, Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina.
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“This is one of the very few novels that I’ve read twice. My lasting memory of it, and I think why it plays such a special role for me, is that it’s such a poignant and touching and unflinching depiction of change, and of when people feel caught out by change, and how the old order feels about the introduction of new customs and new regimes. There’s this kind of wistful way in which the prince describes his own inability to move with the times. For anyone who’s interested in Europe, where we’ve just seen this ceaseless ebb and flow of the new replacing the old, I just don’t think you can find a better book to summarise the wisdom and the conservatism and nostalgia that any order that is having to make way for a new order feels.” Read more...
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