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| Original Title: | Dvärgen |
| ISBN: | 0374521352 (ISBN13: 9780374521356) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | the Prince, Piccoline, Maestro Bernardo, Boccarossa |
| Setting: | Italy |
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.
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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 |
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The Dwarf observes. He judges. He despises. And he hates. It is difficult to understand those whom one does not hate, for then one is unarmed, one has nothing with which to penetrate into their being. The familiar tautology, Haters gonna hate, does not do justice to the bile which bubbles from this narrators pen and mouth. He loathes the weakness of humans, the false faces they present socially, their enslavement to desire and affection, their very existence. His character operates like aWritten in clear, concise prose, Nobel Prize winner Par Lagerkvist's The Dwarf is a richly philosophical novel, that offers perceptive insights on a host of topics from personal identity to religion to war and even romantic relationships. Like all great first-person narrators in fiction, Piccoline The Dwarf is an excellent choice due to his status as an outsider in the Prince's court, he sees much and has a lot to say.
I've never read anything by Lagerkvist, but knew he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the early 1950s. I was browsing the shelves at my public library and decided to check him out. I ddn't know what his other writing is like, but this was a really amazing book. It's only about 200 pages and his style allows you to breeze through the narrative quickly. I would describe the story as something like a fable, told from the perspective of a 26 inch dwarf who is something like a "fool"-type
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 narrator and titular character of The Dwarf is a character so purely evil and unlikable that he serves as a refutation of the very worldview he espouses, even without any other character presenting an explicit counterargument or different perspective. The glee that the dwarf takes at pain, violence, and death is disgusting, and throughout the course of this short book he partakes in everything from animal cruelty to murder to false accusations of rape. At one point the dwarf muses: Therefore
The Dwarf is indeed an intriguing masterpiece which can nicely depict the human dilemma of virtue and evil. Set in an unnamed Italian city-state in the Renaissance, the story is narrated in the Piccoline's diary. Piccoline is a dwarf who serves the Prince at the court, and knows no emotions but hatred, violence, and malice. He impersonates a true misanthrope who can respect only the dark side of the humanity; yet, is in no rash to befriend every evil-hearted he meets in the court. Don Ricardo,
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