The Little World of Don Camillo Don Camillo Series Book 1 edition by Giovanni Guareschi Piers Dudgeon Adam Elgar Literature Fiction eBooks
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Reading ‘The Little World of Don Camillo’ is to travel to the Valley of the River Po, Italy’s widest and most fertile plain, with its unique atmosphere, culture and natural history. And to do so in the incomparable company of a cast of fictional characters who testify to the exquisite humour and humanity of their creator.
In the Little World, eternal forces grapple with the absurd drama of everyday life, and hilarious and unearthly things can happen.
If you keep this in mind you will have no difficulty in getting to know the village priest, Don Camillo, and his adversary, Peppone, the Communist Mayor. Nor will you be surprised when a third person watches the goings-on from a big cross in the village church and not infrequently intercedes . . .
In story after story, the hot-headed Catholic priest, Don Camillo, and the equally pugnacious Communist mayor, Peppone, confront one another, sometimes in a serious and violent manner.
The clever bit is the way Guareschi engineers a resolution to the conflict and transforms the situation to the great benefit of the local community, so that the two men put their political convictions aside and, however begrudgingly, develop respect for one another.
To enable this, the author creates a third main character, his finest creation and the most surprising. Il Cristo presides over proceedings from above the altar of the town church and counsels Don Camillo, exposing and undermining the stubborn priest’s personal politics and prejudices and, with fascinating insights and gentle humour, suggests paths of action which, with the benefit of hindsight, we come to see make things right.
Guareschi claimed that the voice from above the altar was simply the voice of his own conscience, but in the stories it is a living reality which enables solutions so simple that they are beyond the reach of political minds clouded with ideology and the need to win.
Guareschi’s message is that what works at the level of the Little World can be made to work universally, the world over.
More than fifty years on, these enchanting, wise and strangely moving stories of life in the Lower Plain continue to enthral millions of readers of all ages around the world. They have been feted not only in books but in films, in series on TV, on radio and most recently on YouTube. In this newly translated volume, many are available in English for the very first time.
About the Author
Giovannino Guareschi, known as Giovanni to his millions of English language readers, was born at Fontanelle in the Valley of the Po on the 1st of May, 1908. His father wanted him to become a naval engineer. He, for the very enjoyment of going the opposite way, determined to become a lawyer, but found his vocation when he sent some cartoons he had drawn to the satirical magazine, 'Bartoldo'. Later he founded his own magazine, 'Candido', and wrote 347 stories featuring Don Camillo, a character who has done for Italy what Cervantes Don Quixote did for Spain.
About the Translator
Adam Elgar, the translator of this the first new English translation of Don Camillo since 1952, is a young poet and award-winning translator with a profound empathy with the spirit of Italy.
The Little World of Don Camillo Don Camillo Series Book 1 edition by Giovanni Guareschi Piers Dudgeon Adam Elgar Literature Fiction eBooks
There are many faults to this collection of short stories, beginning with the fact that the final cycle of stories was left incomplete, and that in fact the closing story has never been published in English (except on my blog). But nothing can undo the effect of a wit the equal of Wodehouse, and an underlying humanity that treats the enemy with as much respect as the hero. This is the introduction to one of the greatest bodies of comic literature in history, and if you haven't read it, you are deprived.Product details
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The Little World of Don Camillo Don Camillo Series Book 1 edition by Giovanni Guareschi Piers Dudgeon Adam Elgar Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Don Camillo has been amusing and informing us for over 50 years. This compendium of stories is no way complete but does give an insight into the world of Mundo Picolo with it's communist mayou Peppone and it's turbulent priest; Don Camillo. Their conflicts and friendship are interwoven with wonderful descriptions of the Po valley. This hasn't aged at all and will delight both young and old. I just wish all the stories were available on .
The stories are as delightful today as when first published in English.I still laugh out loud at the antics of Don Camillo and Peppone.I recommend the Little World for all readers.
The Don Camillo books are my favorite books ever. Such wonderful heart, honesty, humor, pathos. Tear-jerking sometimes and laugh-out-loud at other times. I've read and re-read this book at least 50 times. So nice to have it in a version. I'd like to have all the others on also (in English, not Italian).
. It's a collection a heartwarming stories between the good and evil of everyday temptations in a small town in the low country of Italy in the post WWII, when the communist danger was threatening Italy. It's going to make you laugh out loud and cheer for the simple characters and if you have problems, remember, the Christ is the voice of the conscience of Duareschi. I am so glad this book by Giovanni Guareschi was put in version and I hope they continue doing with the rest of the series.
Great book. I would like to send a copy to each member of the US Congress. It shows how decent people can work together towards a noble cause in spite of political differences.
The Little World of Don Camillo helped me understand how to relate to God. Don Camillo and Jesus on the Cross share a relationship that is so outside the indoctrination that most Christians encounter. Add Peppone to counterbalance life within stain glassed walls....the stories are cute, nostalgic, light-hearted, but in each is truth about us and how God may see us.
You think the American political divide is bad? You could be living in Postwar Italy! In this witty and wise series of stories, a pugnacious town priest and the newly-minted Communist mayor are eternal enemies -- and, although neither will admit to it, deep down the best of friends. There is a lot of wisdom for our times in the experiences of that time. But that is true of every time.
There are many faults to this collection of short stories, beginning with the fact that the final cycle of stories was left incomplete, and that in fact the closing story has never been published in English (except on my blog). But nothing can undo the effect of a wit the equal of Wodehouse, and an underlying humanity that treats the enemy with as much respect as the hero. This is the introduction to one of the greatest bodies of comic literature in history, and if you haven't read it, you are deprived.
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