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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Geburtstag: 23. Dezember 1896
Todesdatum: 23. Juli 1957

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa war ein italienischer Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler, der vor allem durch seinen Roman Il Gattopardo bekannt geworden ist.

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„Sind nicht auch wir dabei, so denken sich die Kerle noch die Republik aus. Wenn wir wollen, daß alles bleibt wie es ist, dann ist nötig, daß alles sich verändert.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Der Leopard. Übersetzung von Charlotte Birnbaum. 1. Kapitel (Fürst Salina zu Tancredi). Piper-Verlag, 1959. S. 32

„The young feel sorrows much more sharply that the old; the latter are nearer the safety exit.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 184

„If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 29

„We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 152

„A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 128

„What would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for anyone wanting to guide others.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 148

„No nineteenth-century writer could have written this nineteenth-century tale; but few twentieth-century writers could have handled its simplicities in the way this one does.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975) vol. 3, p. 30.

„Perhaps the greatest novel of the century.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
L. P. Hartley on The Leopard, quoted in Robin Healey Twentienth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) p. 146.