Centuria: One Hundred Ourobic Novels
100本の短い小説を、夢幻的な発想と凝縮した文体で連ねた実験的な一冊。
作品情報
100の断章が、小説の形を別の速度で組み替える。
一編ごとに極端に短い物語が、互いにずれながら集積し、現実感そのものを組み替えていく。言語遊戯、ブラックユーモア、寓話性が結びついた、Manganelli の代表作のひとつ。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- McPherson & Co
- 発売日
- 2005-02-28
- ページ数
- 214ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.19 x 2.16 x 22.05 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780929701721
- ISBN-10
- 0929701720
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
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
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I like the book,
but it's not quite what I was expecting. I think that the book will probably grow on me as time goes on. It is very well written. The short works are well thought out and at time can keep the reader off balance. It is a work of a writer that is a master of his craft. I think, personal opinion, that the stories could have come together in a larger, shall we say, plot. It is a book worth reading.
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Great Italian writer
I'm really enjoying this book. I'm into Italian, Spanish and French writers. Manganelli and Tabucchi are terrific Italian writers. The themes expressed in ultra-short format are still interesting and engrossing.