“In the Leopard’s Land”. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Cover Image

“Nel paese del Gattopardo”. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński e Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
“In the Leopard’s Land”. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Author(s): Magdalena Śniedziewska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński; Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; Sicily; “The Leopard”; insularity

Summary/Abstract: The present work is devoted to the problem of reception of the Sicilian literature in the Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s oeuvre. The article is an analysis of the Herling-Grudziński’s essay on “The Leopard” published in 1959 in “Kultura”. Herling in his work analyzes the crucial problem of the sicilianity (sicilianità) and the obsession with death. In the “Journal Written at Night” and in the essay about Lampedusa Grudziński “rewrites” the vision of Sicily and diagnoses the problem of insularity (insularità).

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 141-151
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Italian