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    The document provides information about the short story "The Siren" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It describes that Lampedusa was a Sicilian prince who wrote the celebrated novel "The Leopard" before he died. The short story "The Siren" contains dual narratives, characters, settings, tones, and perspectives. Originally called "Lighea," the story portrays its title character, a siren, as a specific and vulnerable 16-year-old girl. Jhumpa Lahiri edited an anthology containing Lampedusa's short story.

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    The document provides information about the short story "The Siren" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It describes that Lampedusa was a Sicilian prince who wrote the celebrated novel "The Leopard" before he died. The short story "The Siren" contains dual narratives, characters, settings, tones, and perspectives. Originally called "Lighea," the story portrays its title character, a siren, as a specific and vulnerable 16-year-old girl. Jhumpa Lahiri edited an anthology containing Lampedusa's short story.

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    The document provides information about the short story "The Siren" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It describes that Lampedusa was a Sicilian prince who wrote the celebrated novel "The Leopard" before he died. The short story "The Siren" contains dual narratives, characters, settings, tones, and perspectives. Originally called "Lighea," the story portrays its title character, a siren, as a specific and vulnerable 16-year-old girl. Jhumpa Lahiri edited an anthology containing Lampedusa's short story.

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    “The Siren” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1961)

    Born in Palermo in 1896, Lampedusa was a learned prince

    who died before his work was published. In addition to his

    celebrated novel The Leopard, he left behind some short

    stories, including “The Siren”, a mysterious masterpiece that

    jolts and haunts me every time I read it. It contains two

    narrative planes, two central protagonists, two settings, two

    tonal registers and two points of view. There are even two

    titles; though published as “La Sirena”, it was originally called

    “Lighea”, the name of the siren, portrayed as a 16-year-old

    girl. Lampedusa’s description renders this fatefully seductive

    creature specific, vulnerable and real. Jhumpa Lahiri

    The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, edited by Jhumpa

    Lahiri, will be published on 7 March.

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