The Iguana - Anna Maria Ortese

[Luke]

The Iguana, Anna Maria Ortese, translated from Italian by Henry Martin, 1965, Italy, NOVEL

"One of Anna Maria Ortese's best-known examples of Italian magical realism, The Iguana is a complex story of twists and turns, with roving aristocrats, uncharted islands, poetry, religion, class struggle, introspection, philosophical debate, and a servant who is an old woman—no, a large, ancient lizard—no, a young lizard—no, a beautiful girl in a lace dress—no a servant in gray rags. Abrupt plat shifts intermingle with high-flying rhetoric: "If excitement strikes you as a target hardly congruent to the vast potentialities of money, then consider the strict correlation between financial abundance and the impoverishment of the senses."..."

(E.B., p. 183)

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[Jimmy]

This book was amazing!

[Luke]

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