by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432082955
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«El Gatopardo» is the historical novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published by Planeta in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Sicily in 1860, during the Risorgimento, it tells the story of Prince Fabrizio Salina, an aristocrat who watches the decline of his class while a new bourgeoisie rises. Between nostalgia and lucidity, the novel portrays historical change, decadence, identity, and the inevitable transformation of a society.
Posthumous novel, originally published in 1958 as «Il gattopardo». This 1986 edition includes the translation by Fernando Gutiérrez and belongs to the Bestsellers Planeta collection (no. 89).
A fundamental work for readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century Italian literature.
Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction.
