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An NYRB Classics Original

In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.

The Professor and the Siren, like , meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between erotic love and learning. Professor La Ciura is one of the worlds most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life. This Lampedusas final masterpiece, is accompanied here by the parable Joy and the Law and The Blind Kittens, a story originally conceived as the first chapter of a followup to .