Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa _ Ligeia
[… ] And then I saw her, she was smiling. It wasn’t a smile like yours, debased by a secondary emotion: kindness, irony, compassion. That smile expressed only itself, a primal joy of existence.”
Tomasi di Lampedusa tells the dazzling story of an austere Hellenist professor who, isolated in the summer of his early youth on a deserted Sicilian beach, knows the divine love of siren Ligeia and the “primal joy of existence”, becoming one with her in the waters. “Eternal Sicily” and its natural splendor is the setting for this eerie love story where magic is somewhat tangible and the primal animal instinct prevails: immersed in spiritual and physical pleasure, Professor La Ciura surrenders himself completely and forever to the sublime being.
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