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Title	:	The Dwarf
Author	:	Pär Lagerkvist
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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

The Dwarf

Pär Lagerkvist

Paperback | Pages: 228 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 4746 Users | 322 Reviews

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

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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

A clever, brilliantly executed look into the malice and selfishness of humans. Peculiar, but brilliant.

"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

The first person narration of the story told through constant journal entries became a little forced at times; Lagerkvist gave context and a sense of time to each entry which made it feel artificial. The structure reminds me of Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded.-She has nothing which a man could find desirable. One can only see that once upon a time she was utterly beautiful.-They spread out their star maps and read the heavens like a book. But they are the authors of the book, and the

I very much enjoyed this novel for, among other things, its relentlessly bleak and darkly comic (by way of the grotesque) tone. This is a story that just. doesn't. give. a. damn. about your feelings concerning the events described or the characters partaking in said events....it simply presents them (adroitly if also matched by concomitant bitterness) as they are and leaves you to judge them, in a sense, purely. No consideration is given to modulation or amelioration of darkness, it's a dark

Reminder to self: don't be heinous.

Written in clear, concise prose, Nobel Prize winner Par Lagerkvist's The Dwarf is a richly philosophical novel, that offers perceptive insights on a host of topics from personal identity to religion to war and even romantic relationships. Like all great first-person narrators in fiction, Piccoline The Dwarf is an excellent choice due to his status as an outsider in the Prince's court, he sees much and has a lot to say.