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| Title | : | The Dwarf |
| Author | : | Pär Lagerkvist |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 228 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1958 by Hill and Wang (first published 1944) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Swedish Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Scandinavian Literature. Literature |
Pär Lagerkvist
Paperback | Pages: 228 pages Rating: 3.8 | 4746 Users | 322 Reviews
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"I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls." Pär Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel The Dwarf is an exploration of individual and social identity. The novel, set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf Piccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on political intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege. Gradually, Piccoline is drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict, and he inspires fear and hate around him as he grows to represent the fascination of the masses with violence.Identify Books As The Dwarf
| Original Title: | Dvärgen |
| ISBN: | 0374521352 (ISBN13: 9780374521356) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | the Prince, Piccoline, Maestro Bernardo, Boccarossa |
| Setting: | Italy |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 4746 Users | 322 ReviewsArticle Regarding Books The Dwarf
"When I saw the Prince looking at me I met his eyes with serenity. They were strange. Human eyes are sometimes like that -a dwarfs never. It was as though everything in his soul had floated to the surface and was watching me and my actions with mingled fear, anxiety, and desire; as though strange monsters had emerged from the depths, twisting and turning with their slimy bodies. An ancient being like myself never looks like that." Very intriguing, unique and at times even scandalous. There wereThis sure feels like the type of book I would love: incredibly dark, misanthropic, (pseudo)philosophical. The dwarf Piccoline is one of the most miserably hateful characters I have encountered. Yet rather than luxuriating in his own hate, and allowing the reader to do the same, his evil is more a lack of humanity, his motivation as utilitarian as the authors prose. Far from the anti-hero Underground Man, or the delicious villain Iago, Piccoline is somehow evil and completely indifferent. And
Reminder to self: don't be heinous.
I very much enjoyed this novel for, among other things, its relentlessly bleak and darkly comic (by way of the grotesque) tone. This is a story that just. doesn't. give. a. damn. about your feelings concerning the events described or the characters partaking in said events....it simply presents them (adroitly if also matched by concomitant bitterness) as they are and leaves you to judge them, in a sense, purely. No consideration is given to modulation or amelioration of darkness, it's a dark
The Dwarf is a strange little book written by a Swedish Nobel Prize winner some time during WWII. Its a rather allegoric story narrated by a dwarf living on the court in an unnamed Italian city probably in the 15th century, but actually all the hints point us in the same direction as Machiavellis Prince who was modelled on Cesare Borgia. In The Dwarf we also find Master Bernardo who is obviously Leonardo da Vinci (and who coincidentally also resided in Cesare Borgias court often.)The plot is
Bleakly narrated by one of the more memorably nihilistic characters in modern literature, The Dwarf is a tale of struggles of an Italian medieval city-state as it withers from within. The plot points, war and intrigue, could come from any number of other works set in this period, and move the story briskly along, but the desolate philosophy underlying the action holds a singular fascination and weight. Filled with memorable epigrams for a doomed humanity. I'm not sure when this was written, but
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