by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437606415
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«El Gatopardo» is the classic novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Sicily during the Risorgimento, the novel follows Prince Fabrizio Salina as he contemplates the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the bourgeoisie during Italian unification. With elegant, nostalgic prose, Lampedusa portrays a fading world and the irresistible arrival of new times.
Published posthumously in 1958, this Cátedra edition belongs to the Letras Universales collection and includes editing, introduction, and notes by Raffaele Pinto.
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.
