Trop tard : littérature et cinéma au travers de Lampedusa, Visconti, Deleuze, Nietzsche et quelques autres
Too Late: Literature and Cinema through Lampedusa, Visconti, Deleuze, Nietzsche and Others

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze Visconti’s adaptation of Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard. It seems to us that one of the fruitful ways to approach the text is to consider the relationship to time, which develops on the dimension of the too late. We shall attempt to show that philosopher Gilles Deleuze (in his work Cinéma 2, L’image-temps) was attentive to this aspect, and identified it as a fundamental dimension of Visconti’s cinema. If we accept this interpretation, we may be led backwards to show how it functions in Lampedusa’s novel. To this extent, we have tried to show how this dimension of the too late appears to be central to The Leopard, in its both book and film form. Gilles Deleuze then appears as the philosopher who, having questioned literature and cinema, makes it possible to identify this junction between novel and film.

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