{"product_id":"centuria-giorgio-manganelli-9780929701721","title":"Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels","description":"Italo Calvino once remarked that in Giorgio Manganelli, \"Italian literature has a writer who resembles no one else, unmistakable in each of his phrases, an inventor who is irresistible and inexhaustible in his games with language and ideas.\" Nowhere is this more true than in this Decameron of fictions, each composed on a single folio sheet of typing paper. Yet, what are they? Miniature psychodramas, prose poems, tall tales, sudden illuminations, malevolent sophistries, fabliaux, paranoiac excursions, existential oxymorons, or wondrous, baleful absurdities? Always provocative, insolent, sinister, and quite often funny, these 100 comic novels are populated by decidedly ordinary lovers, martyrs, killers, thieves, maniacs, emperors, bandits, sleepers, architects, hunters, prisoners, writers, hallucinations, ghosts, spheres, dragons, Doppelgngers, knights, fairies, angels, animal incarnations, and Dreamstuff. Each \"novel\" construes itself into a kind of Mbius strip, in which, as one crit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giorgio Manganelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0929701720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780929701721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McPherson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.68h x 5.98w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e IndieFab awards - Second Place\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2005 pg. 73","brand":"Giorgio Manganelli","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48441387122943,"sku":"9780929701721","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1edd5a74-dd4c-49a3-8491-150cc4a66ed0.jpg?v=1777190568","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/centuria-giorgio-manganelli-9780929701721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}