The dwarf
Overview: "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." Par 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. F…
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- Full title :The dwarf / by Pär Lagerkvist ; translated by Alexandra Dick.
Summary
Overview: "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." Par 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. A gothic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish author
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- Publication Date:[2002?], ©1973.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:[2002?], ©1973.
Notes
Translation of: Dvärgen.
"This edition originally published in paperback in 1958 by Hill and Wang"--Title page verso
The Physical Object
- Description:228 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0374521352, 9780374521356
- oclc:ocm50252367
- LC Classification:PT9875.L2
- Dewey Decimal:839.7/372
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