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Centuria: One Hundred Outoboric Novels

Centuria: One Hundred Outoboric Novels

Manganelli, Giorgio
Martin, Henry

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ISBN10: 0929701852
ISBN13: 9780929701851
Publisher: Mcpherson & Co
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
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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