Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802137777 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 02 Aug 2001 |
Edition: | 1st Edition |
DEWEY: | 853.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 131 |
Weight: | 227g |
Height: | 233mm |
Width: | 171mm |
Spine width: | 10mm |