Description
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.
P r 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.Author: Par Lagerkvist
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 01/01/1958
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780374521356
ISBN10: 0374521352
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | Renaissance
- Fiction | World Literature | Sweden
About the Author
Pär Lagerkvist, playwright, poet, essayist, and novelist, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. The Dwarf, long considered a masterpiece of modern literature, was first published in 1945. Mr. Lagerkvist died in Sweden in 1974.