"Plus que ca change, plus que la meme chose."

I'm reading the 1960 novel The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, who was a member of an aristocratic Sicilian family. The novel is set during Italian risorgimento (1860-70). E.B.Browning, George Eliot--all the significant high Victorian thinkers had an opinion on Italian unification, but I'm reading the novel for more personal reasons.
A line early in the work struck me as pertinent to the sort of cultural studies/post-colonial approach many of us take in our own reading and teaching: "Sometimes things have to change so that they can remain the same." So open to interpretation and interrogation! And not just on the geo-political level!
Perhaps this is a novel we could add to our optional or summer reading lists. At the time, many literary organizations deemed The Leopard the novel of the year. Its author died before he could see his only work published.