the Cheetah ( It Gattopardo ), appeared in 1958, is a novel posthumous, victorious Prix Strega in 1959 (in string with the autobiography of Mario Praz, the House of the life ), and written by the prince Giuseppe Tomasi, duke of Lampedusa. It traces there the life of gift Fabrizio Salina, a sicilian prince , in the middle of the Italian revolutionary torments of the Risorgimento. But it is especially a history of Sicily and transition between an old order and a new order. The author apparently took as a starting point Giulio de Lampedusa to create the character of gift Fabrizio. The weapons of this last were however a lion léopardé (i.e. passing the made-to-order of the leopard), that the author transformed into Guépard in his work.

Main characters

• Gift Fabrizio Corbera, prince de Salina (the Cheetah). This last sees the Aristocracy crumbling without same sourciller.
• Tancrèdi Falconeri, nephew of gift Fabrizio. Noble, it takes part in the revolution garibaldienne then joined the regular army. Of a nature merry and full with spirit, it is the preferred nephew of gift Fabrizio.
• Gift Calogero Sedàra, rich sicilian owner, it represents the rise of the new forces.
• Angelica Sedàra, the girl of gift Calogero. Of a remarkable beauty, she marries Tancrèdi.
• Concetta Salina, girl of the prince and cousin of Tancrèdi, with which it was in love.
• Pirrone Father, Jesuit.

Quotation

One of the most famous sentences remains attached to Prince de Lampedusa, " It is necessary that any exchange so that any remainder like avant" , by reflecting the philosophy of any revolution.

For the new translation (by Jean-Paul Mangaro): " If we want that any residence in the state, it is necessary that all change."

Adaptation

the Cheetah was taken again accurately with the cinema (see the Cheetah ) by Luchino Visconti in 1963.

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