Vol. 26 (2025): Special Issue: Déchets, débris et autres matières et choses inutiles dans la littérature, la pensée et les arts
Déchets, débris et autres matières et choses inutiles dans la littérature, la pensée et les arts

Reliques et déchets dans Le Guépard (Il Gattopardo) de G. Tomasi di Lampedusa

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Tivadar Palágyi
Université Comenius
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59533/Verb.2025.26.sp.8

Published 06-05-2025

Keywords

  • The Leopard,
  • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,
  • relics,
  • rubbish,
  • literary allegory,
  • literary irony

How to Cite

Palágyi, T. (2025). Reliques et déchets dans Le Guépard (Il Gattopardo) de G. Tomasi di Lampedusa. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 26, 105–116. https://doi.org/10.59533/Verb.2025.26.sp.8
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Abstract

The Sicilian novel The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), written between 1955 and 1957 by Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, is a reflection on the political and social changes brought about in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies by Italian unity in 1860–1861. The aim of this article is to highlight the importance in the novel of relics, rubbish and objects abandoned after the death of their owners. On the one hand, their fate symbolises social transformations, but on a more general level it also suggests the ephemeral and tragic nature of human existence.

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