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...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism...
...have a coming-out party, divided most of her time between junkets to Europe and sculpture lessons in Cambridge, Mass. After settling in New York last summer, she drifted aimlessly about, looking for modeling jobs by day and dancing at discotheques by night, invariably dressed in racy culottes or leopard-skin slacks. Last January, having nothing better to do, she showed up at a screening at Warhol's movie "factory," talked herself into a part, soon took over where 1964's "Girl of the Year," Baby Jane Holzer, had left off. Said she: "I didn't know...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism and death...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism and death...
...Leopard has sired a cub. Giuseppe di Lampedusa's posthumous novel described the life of a decaying aristocratic family during a period of social crisis in Sicily; The Garden of the Finzi-Continis describes the life of a decaying upper-class family during a period of social crisis in Ferrara. What's more, Novelist Bassani, an established poet, critic and editor who was responsible for the publication of The Leopard, has obviously learned from the master: his style is as rich and iridescent as Lampedusa's, and the substance of his novel is similarly sturdy stuff...