To write truthfully about one's own time is impossible; one ... - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

"To write truthfully about one's own time is impossible; one can only write about the past."

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Literature

Novelist Italian 1896–1957

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