Book Review - Par Lagerkvist's "Dwarf"

The Swedish writer PärLagerkvist won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951, in part because of this interesting, evil, extraordinary masterpiece, originally published in 1944. from

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 Bringing Lagerkvist to international popularity, but this book is now quite different in his famous novels [cough]. from

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 . Still, this savvy little gem still deserves a place on the shelf of a discerning reader, along such dark, disturbing and unforgivable literature. from

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 During the Italian wars of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the story of an evil dwarf Pecorsin was told. Although the characters are fictitious, they are still very familiar. The prince may model the real life of the Renaissance prince and warlord Cesare Borgia, who dominates Niccolo Machiavelli. from

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Lagerkvist tells us the Italian city-state of the Renaissance [think Milan or Florence] through Piccoline's diary entry with an extremely violent siege. War, plague and famine brought the worst of the most evil protagonists in literature, a creepy disgust, and they did not like violence and destruction at all. Because of his short stature, Picolin thinks he is not a human being at all, but another race. This allowed him to murder his ancestor's enemies coldly and is also a personal enemy. The only emotions he knows are hatred, malice and a desire for revenge. He is a charming, funny, unlovable poor person. Readers of George RR Martin's pop fantasy series from

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 It may be considered that Piccoline is the literary ancestor of the dwarf anti-hero Tyrion Lannister.

Italian Renaissance history lovers will get a lot from this wonderfully dirty story. The cycle details are rich and real, if loose and fictional. The prince in the novel is part of Cesare Borgia and is part of Ludovico Sforza. These two long-established Italian princes have hired the artist Leonardo Da Vinci as a war engineer, Leonardo is from

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 The fascination brought by artist Maestro Bernardo [like Leonardo] is grotesque and requires the horrible dwarf to model the sketch.

An interesting possibility is that the dwarf does not exist at all. This character can be interpreted as the dark side of the prince himself, in which he will be a from

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 The role of getting out of the worst thoughts and behaviors by becoming a dwarf. The author makes some hints that this may be the correct explanation.

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 Speed ​​Reading. The prose is very clean, the action is sharp, and the details are riveted. Based on our understanding of our worst impulses, there is a lot of dark humor here. Piccoline will never be redeemed and will ultimately be immoral and unapologetic. I recommend this novel for both pure entertainment and philosophical exploration of the evil nature of all of us.

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