Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802137777)

Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwriting into a comedy of complete originality. In a first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is a brilliant, vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus's voyage to America. Told by a last-minute conscript assigned to clean the shipboard pig stalls, who goes on to be adopted by a tribe of Indians and help them fight conquistadors, it posits a riotous alternate history in which the dynamics between native and white, male and female, history and comedy are never what they seem.

Author: Dario Fo
ISBN-10: 0802137776
ISBN-13: 9780802137777
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2001
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.76w x 0.40d