Pimporello A Fable for All Ages |
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| Author:
| Marceau, Marcel |
| Adapted by:
| Hammond, Robert |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7206-0813-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1991 |
| Publisher: | Peter Owen Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Celebrated mime Marceau voices his personal artistic credo in this short, deceptively simple tale. Pimporello, a middle-aged, disillusioned Italian street mime down on his luck, befriends Nina, a shy, frightened orphan who idolizes him. Each deceives the other with a big white lie, the unmasking of which produces shattering consequences. Believing that his art reflects humanity's desire for a better life, for goodness, peace, and justice, Pimporello feels he carries a heavy...
More DescriptionCelebrated mime Marceau voices his personal artistic credo in this short, deceptively simple tale. Pimporello, a middle-aged, disillusioned Italian street mime down on his luck, befriends Nina, a shy, frightened orphan who idolizes him. Each deceives the other with a big white lie, the unmasking of which produces shattering consequences. Believing that his art reflects humanity's desire for a better life, for goodness, peace, and justice, Pimporello feels he carries a heavy burden. There is a grand, dreamlike epiphany involving a circus, and at the end the reader, along with the street mime, is left wondering which events were real, which illusory. Narrowly avoiding sentimentality, this magical, engaging story is a parable on the risk-taking artist who creates reality through artifice. Marceau's puckish, ethereal drawings amplify the text.