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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

„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.

„When a peasant gives me his bit of cheese he's making me a bigger present than the Prince of Làscari when he invites me to dinner. That's obvious. The difficulty is that the cheese is nauseating. So all that remains is the heart's gratitude which can't be seen and the nose wrinkled in disgust which can be seen only too well.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 144

„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

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

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 29

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

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 128

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

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Page 184

„His great novel The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) has certainly enlarged my life – an unusual experience for a life which is well on in its eighties. Reading and rereading it has made me realize how many ways there are of being alive, how many doors there are, close to one, which someone else's touch may open.“

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
E. M. Forster, Introduction to Lampedusa's Two Stories and a Memory (New York: Pantheon, 1962) p. 13.

„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

„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.