Author: Giovanni GuareschiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781849022521
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Author: Giovanni GuareschiDon Camillo & His Flock
Author: Giovanni GuareschiPublisher: Don Camillo Series
ISBN: 9781900064187
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Set against the post-war backdrop of a rural village in the Emilia-Romagna, this is the second in a new series of hilarious and incisive Don Camillo anthologies, which offer 215 stories translated into English for the very first time. As ever, the townsfolk, riven by their disparate allegiances to the hot-headed Catholic priest and his equally pugnacious adversary Peppone, the Communist Mayor, are relieved of their prejudices by the gentle humour and insights coming from high above the altar in the village church. REVIEWS 'Written with such warmth and simplicity, so concerned with the trivialities of everyday life and giving us so shrewd a glimpse into the minds of the people . . .' London Evening News 'Charming and enchanting...witty and wise' -- Edinburgh Evening News 'You'll find Don Camillo not just enchanting and lovable, and at times hilariously funny, but also strangely moving in his simple but certain faith.' -- BBC Radio Books by the Fire 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 a satirical magazine, 'Candido', and wrote 346 stories featuring Don Camillo, a character who has done for Italy what Cervantes Don Quixote did for Spain.
Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children
Author: Giovanni GuareschiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hippies
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Don Camillo must contend with Don Chichi, a young priest sent by the Vatican, who is determined to install the entirety of the recent Ecumenical Council's reforms in twenty-four hours. At the same time, he faces more trouble when his niece, Flora, whom he has not seen since infancy and who has blossomed into a flower child, appears on the rectory doorstep with a clutch of Italian Hell's Angels.
Don Camillo and Don Chichi
Author: Giovanni GuareschiPublisher: Don Camillo Series
ISBN: 9781900064569
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
THE NEW DON CAMILLO A gang of Hells Angels rips through the village, bringing mayhem and a generational shift to traditional enmities between Don Camillo and Peppone. The year is 1966, a time ripe for rebellion, for overturning conventions - a time, above all, to be young. Meanwhile, beset by the third young progressive leftwing priest with a mandate to steer him into the modern world, Don Camillo digs in and finds a surprise ally in Peppone as he fights to save the three-metre high figure of il Cristo through which he conducts his famous conversations with God. These are the last Don Camillo stories ever written. Two years after they are set, on July 22, 1968, the author died in Cervia on the east coast of Italy, where, due to ill health, he had taken to spending the summer months. 'Guareschi's was one of the most prescient and perceptive voices of the twentieth century.' Tobias Jones, author of The Dark Heart of Italy. 'Guareschi's tales are absolutely delightful in their satirical swipes at human weakness.' Paul Merton
The Don Camillo Stories of Giovanni Guareschi
Author: Alan R. PerryPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802097561
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Giovannino Guareschi (1908-1968) was an Italian journalist, humorist, and cartoonist best known for his short stories based on the fictional Catholic priest Don Camillo. In this study, Alan R. Perry explores the Don Camillo stories from the perspective of Christian hermeneutics, a unique approach and the best critical key to unlocking the richness of both the author and his tales. The stories of Don Camillo, the cantankerous but beloved priest, and his sidekick, Communist mayor Peppone, continue to entertain viewers and readers. Their Cold War adventures, mishaps, arguments, and reconciliations have a timeless quality, and their actions reflect endearing values that prevail even today. The stories delight, to be sure, but the best of them also force us to stop and think about how Guareschi so powerfully conveyed the Christian message of faith, hope, and love. To appreciate the true genius of Guareschi, Perry argues that we must delve deeper into the latent spiritual meaning that many of his stories contain. In reflecting popular understandings of the faith, the Don Camillo tales allow us to appreciate a sacred awareness of the world, an understanding communicated through objects, gestures, expressions, and actual religious rites. The first full-length scholarly examination of the Don Camillo stories to appear, this book offers a solid appreciation of Italian cultural values and discusses the ways in which those values were contested in the first decades of the Cold War.
Author: E. Cobham Brewer
Author: Giovanni Guareschi
Author: Tobias Jones
Author: Giovanni Guareschi