Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
Giorgio Manganelli
(Author)
Henry Martin
(Translator)
Description
Italo Calvino once remarked that in Giorgio Manganelli, "Italian literature has a writer who resembles no one else, unmistakable in each of his phrases, an inventor who is irresistible and inexhaustible in his games with language and ideas." Nowhere is this more true than in this Decameron of fictions, each composed on a single folio sheet of typing paper. Yet, what are they? Miniature psychodramas, prose poems, tall tales, sudden illuminations, malevolent sophistries, fabliaux, paranoiac excursions, existential oxymorons, or wondrous, baleful absurdities? Always provocative, insolent, sinister, and quite often funny, these 100 comic novels are populated by decidedly ordinary lovers, martyrs, killers, thieves, maniacs, emperors, bandits, sleepers, architects, hunters, prisoners, writers, hallucinations, ghosts, spheres, dragons, Doppelgngers, knights, fairies, angels, animal incarnations, and Dreamstuff. Each "novel" construes itself into a kind of Mbius strip, in which, as one crit
Product Details
Price
$24.00
$22.32
Publisher
McPherson
Publish Date
December 06, 2004
Pages
214
Dimensions
5.98 X 0.85 X 8.68 inches | 0.91 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780929701721
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