Dwarf

Name: Dwarf
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ISBN: 9780374521356

ISBN-10: 0374521352

ISBN-13: 9780374521356

Edition: N/A

Authors: Pï¿½r Lagerkvist, Alexandra Dick

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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." Pauml;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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/1/1958
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.19" wide x 8.01" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English