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The Dwarf

Pär Lagerkvist

Paperback | Pages: 228 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 4746 Users | 322 Reviews

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Title	:	The Dwarf
Author	:	Pär Lagerkvist
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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Original Title:	Dvärgen
ISBN:	0374521352 (ISBN13: 9780374521356)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	the Prince, Piccoline, Maestro Bernardo, Boccarossa
Setting:	Italy

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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

The Dwarf is a strange book, both political in its approach but also much deeper than that. The best way I think I could describe it is that it's about observation and perception, and how a society's collective emotions invariably transfer to even the most silent and optimistic. I'm still not a hundred percent sure I understood fully what point the author was trying to make, but one thing I can say without a doubt is that this is an intriguing book.It starts off kind of slow and uneventful,



"When I saw the Prince looking at me I met his eyes with serenity. They were strange. Human eyes are sometimes like that -a dwarfs never. It was as though everything in his soul had floated to the surface and was watching me and my actions with mingled fear, anxiety, and desire; as though strange monsters had emerged from the depths, twisting and turning with their slimy bodies. An ancient being like myself never looks like that." Very intriguing, unique and at times even scandalous. There were

The Dwarf observes. He judges. He despises. And he hates. It is difficult to understand those whom one does not hate, for then one is unarmed, one has nothing with which to penetrate into their being. The familiar tautology, Haters gonna hate, does not do justice to the bile which bubbles from this narrators pen and mouth. He loathes the weakness of humans, the false faces they present socially, their enslavement to desire and affection, their very existence. His character operates like a

The frighteningly bitter inner workings of the mind of a medieval court dwarf. Lagerkvist has a way of creating complex and even, at times, hateful characters, and yet they always maintain their humanity. Scheming and misanthropy abound!

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