{"product_id":"the-professor-and-the-siren-9781590177198","title":"The Professor and the Siren","description":"An NYRB Classics Original \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The Professor and the Siren,\" like \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 world's most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life. This Lampedusa's 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590177198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43040280182965,"sku":"9781590177198","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5ac27cdd-32f2-436b-8136-0c4fad72626b.jpg?v=1689088553","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-professor-and-the-siren-9781590177198","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}