book fantasy. Gianni Rodari . Blackie Publishing Books. Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2010. 771 pages. 29 euros. Gianni
Rodari, who spent his whole life teaching children, learned from them to play with things used to be better understood. Perhaps for this reason and because creativity conceived as the ability to break patterns of experience, his stories are now tickling in mind. Many of them now appear in the fantasy Book, a volume which brings together five of the most emblematic of this journalist, teacher, theorist of pedagogy and children's literature and practitioner of "the happiest lightness," as Italo Calvino said.
Rodari was a communist strange. And not because of their status as "ex-seminarian turned into evil", as he called the Vatican in order for his excommunication. It was rather because in an era of surly and dull orthodoxies in camp friend, his true faith, his membership was proven to defend the sense of humor irony and liberating and transforming properties of the imagination. "If we had a fantastic, as we have a logic, he would have discovered the art of inventing" read the quote from Novalis portal serving his Grammar of Fantasy, a trial where the writer urged unclassifiable small and older to go with the joy of telling stories on the premise that reality is malleable, negotiable. Stories
phone , Planet of Christmas trees , typewritten stories, Once Upon Lampert Baron twice and The game of the four corners are the books included in these nearly 800 pages edited by Blackie Books with exquisite mime house brand in late 2010, when it turned 30 years of death and 80 of the author's birth. The collection, with an air of final , gives us the smallest party in tribute to his intelligence and adult, a chance to take off for a while eyestrain glasses, with lenses tricky routine and commonplace " that life will impose.
telephone Tales, first published book in 1962, tells the story of a father, Mr. Bianchi, who because of their commercial profession is forced to spend the time traveling around half of Italy, but wherever you are, at nine o'clock night calls every day to his house to tell a story to his daughter. And the man is taken so seriously its commitment to the cease Varese telephone address to listen to other calls. Planet of Christmas trees was born the same year and is played by Marco, a boy who gave him a rocking horse that comes alive and takes him flying to another planet. They know stories sometimes hard-Rodari speak tactfully but without fear of war, child exploitation or contempt of society by their elders, "and knowing that there will be also your responsibility to ask the world a kinder statutes.
Written in 1973, typewritten stories have less thematic unity, despite being repeatedly acclimated in two beautiful scenery, the Colosseum and Venice finally about to be swallowed by floodwaters. From the stupid easements of fame and vanity of life and death is usually dry Once upon two times the Baron Lambert , a series of stories created by Rodari in 1978 and which has the curious story of the rich baron who appears in the title, a nonagenarian who lives permanently in need of the company of his steward Anselmo, which is pointed in a book its 24 diseases in alphabetical order, and six people who religiously pay shift to pronounce his name and it reverberate in all corners of the palace through a system of microphones. Finally, The game of the four corner s, 1980, grew out of an amusement that the author followed to its logical conclusion: started naming any city, still with a rhyme that the name you suggested it, and flew away, and no rules, if ever there was really "develop a paradox contained in the rhyme.
The latter work illustrates in a particularly eloquent passion with which Rodari believed in the seduction of words and literature, now in the words of Alberto Olmos-as-world testing ground for being "as" disorderly known for other orders likely reconsider and return to known to critically "as a useless, perhaps, but a" useless needed. " At the gateway to their worlds unnecessary and necessary, the Italian writer put more that title, neon signs: very quickly become fish or have to save Venice , Miss Universe green eye-venus , The word "mourn" or Alicia falls into the ocean are some of them. Once inside, the reality explodes like a bag of confetti, a crab being disobedient to his own decide to go forward, a barber, bought with the coins in your pocket you dance the city of Stockholm, a robot is determined to learn to do point, a crocodile goes on TV to compete in the famous program Double or nothing, a Dr. Bergman, Uppsala University, explains $ 27,000 in an interview why he wanted to be an ethologist but ended up watching towers ... And so, more or less, up to 170 stories.