検索キーワード： "Edward Carey" 文学・フィクション

I am writing this account, in another man’s book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten. I have been eaten, yet I am living still. From the acclaimed author of Little comes this beautiful and haunting imagining of the years Geppetto spends within the belly of a sea beast. Drawing upon the Pinocchio story while creating something entirely his own, Carey tells an unforgettable tale of fatherly love and loss, pride and regret, and of the sustaining power of art and imagination.

Nel 1761, una minuscola bambina di nome Marie viene alla luce in un villaggio in Svizzera. Qualche anno più tardi, dopo la morte dei genitori, Marie è presa in casa dal dottor Curtius, un uomo eccentrico e solitario che vive a Berna. Ma Curtius non è propriamente un dottore, è piuttosto un artista, uno scultore della cera: figlio di un famoso anatomista, lavora per l'ospedale della città come modellista, riproducendo parti del corpo umano.

The year is 1901. England’s beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave its confines. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, she decides to write a play of her own: a stage adaptation of the legend of Mawther Meg.

E se Geppetto e Pinocchio non si fossero incontrati nel ventre della balena? Edward Carey, narratore dall'estro geniale e dalla sensibilità fiabesca, reinterpreta in questo romanzo una delle storie più amate della letteratura internazionale: dopo aver tentato senza fortuna di salvare suo figlio in mare, Geppetto rimane intrappolato da solo nella pancia del gigantesco animale. Qui, costretto al buio e ai difficili umori della sua nuova casa, si trova a riflettere sulla sua condizione di uomo, di padre, di figlio, di naufrago.

In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling....

Nel centro di una città, in quella zona abitata da gente con un po’ troppo denaro, c’è un parco. Al centro del parco c’è un piedistallo sprovvisto di statua. Ogni mattina prende il suo posto una statua di carne, coperta di vernice bianca da capo a piedi, immobile creatura di immacolata bianchezza che si anima per un attimo quando apre gli occhi per soffiare una bolla di sapone all’indirizzo di chi le offra il proprio obolo.

Née à Strasbourg en 1761, la jeune Marie Grosholz, future madame Tussaud, est employée dès son plus jeune âge comme apprentie par un sculpteur sur cire. Lorsque le duo devient célèbre à Paris pour ses réalisations, Marie a pour modèles les plus grandes personnalités de l'époque : Voltaire, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, etc. Bientôt elle est accueillie à la Cour où elle prodigue des leçons de sculpture à la princesse Élisabeth, sœur du roi. En 1789, la capitale entre en ébullition, la foule exige des têtes.

In the small Tuscan town of Collodi, a lonely woodcarver longs for the companionship of a son. One day, "as if the wood commanded me", Giuseppe - better known as Geppetto - carves for himself a pinewood boy, a marionette he hopes to take on tour worldwide. But when his handsome new creation comes magically to life, Geppetto screams...and the boy, Pinocchio, leaps from his arms and escapes into the night.

An Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal, in terrifying clarity, the rage, despair, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme, Lorrie Moore, and George Saunders, but in Unferth's unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.