| Author Quoted | Giuseppe Lampedusa |
| Title Quoted | The Leopard |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/07/30 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1958 |
| Quotation | Finished [Giuseppe di Lampedusa's] The Leopard yesterday. A finely constructed novel which suddenly disintegrates, and yet the last two chapters, icebergs broken off a huge moraine, float independently away and are interesting. It is a humorous and moving book. Thoughtful and archetypal, about the disintegration of an old Europe. But dignified and sane. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 24 |
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