| Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels Contributor(s): Manganelli, Giorgio (Author), Martin, Henry (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0929701720 ISBN-13: 9780929701721 Publisher: McPherson
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: December 2004 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: 858.914 |
| LCCN: 2004018152 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.98" W x 8.68" L (0.91 lbs) 214 pages |
| Features: Dust Cover |
| Awards: IndieFab awards, Second Place, Translation, 2005 |
| Review Citations: Library Journal 02/01/2005 pg. 73 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 |
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