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Original Title:	Dvärgen
ISBN:	0374521352 (ISBN13: 9780374521356)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	the Prince, Piccoline, Maestro Bernardo, Boccarossa
Setting:	Italy

The Dwarf Paperback | Pages: 228 pages

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Title	:	The Dwarf
Author	:	Pär Lagerkvist
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 228 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1958 by Hill and Wang (first published 1944)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Swedish Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Scandinavian Literature. Literature

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"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." Pär 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.

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"Look on my works ye mighty and despair!" Anno Diaboli 1944, Pär Lagerkvist wrote a tale of destruction and pain, a study in hatred and hubris.Set at a splendid, powerful court in Renaissance Italy, it shows human culture and civilisation in its most exquisite form. Led by a charismatic and strong prince, the courtiers live a life filled with festivities, art, science, fashion and sexual adventures. The court artist is a thinly veiled portrait of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci.Underneath

I was going to describe this as an allegorical novel, but I think its more accurate to drop the novel part. Lagerkvists message is that everyone has a dark side - hardly world-bending stuff. Rather than go for a Jekyl and Hyde story, he has our bad selves represented by a Princes blood thirsty dwarf: the ape-faced manlike being who sticks his head up from the depths of our souls. Its all pretty obvious, and the lack of character development or dialogue or style makes for a thrill-less ride. The

This sure feels like the type of book I would love: incredibly dark, misanthropic, (pseudo)philosophical. The dwarf Piccoline is one of the most miserably hateful characters I have encountered. Yet rather than luxuriating in his own hate, and allowing the reader to do the same, his evil is more a lack of humanity, his motivation as utilitarian as the authors prose. Far from the anti-hero Underground Man, or the delicious villain Iago, Piccoline is somehow evil and completely indifferent. And

This is my third Lagerkvist, the more I read, the more I like them. Individual agents in Lagerkvists books seem to also work as metaphorical vehicles to deliver, to question, to explore otherwise esoteric, ethereal concepts. Concepts like what it means to be human, whats hidden and unsaid within us, what it means to believe, what is love, etc.If Barabbas the unbeliever was physically chained to a believing-martyr, the Dwarf is figuratively chained to his exact opposite. If the Prince was

Bleakly narrated by one of the more memorably nihilistic characters in modern literature, The Dwarf is a tale of struggles of an Italian medieval city-state as it withers from within. The plot points, war and intrigue, could come from any number of other works set in this period, and move the story briskly along, but the desolate philosophy underlying the action holds a singular fascination and weight. Filled with memorable epigrams for a doomed humanity. I'm not sure when this was written, but

This was a very impressive read from the first pages. The Drarf is presented as a creature that detests the world of humans and is disgusted by them to the point of committing a crime. The book is his personal diary, to which he confesses his deepest thoughts.What was ashtonishing was the fact that some of his views are justified in a way that the reader feels sympathetic towards him and there are even parts of his quotes that one can relate to..

The Dwarf is a strange little book written by a Swedish Nobel Prize winner some time during WWII. Its a rather allegoric story narrated by a dwarf living on the court in an unnamed Italian city probably in the 15th century, but actually all the hints point us in the same direction as Machiavellis Prince who was modelled on Cesare Borgia. In The Dwarf we also find Master Bernardo who is obviously Leonardo da Vinci (and who coincidentally also resided in Cesare Borgias court often.)The plot is