The buffoon

Swinging between fantasy and realism, sometimes with grotesque nuances, between past and present, full of unforeseen situations and picturesque characters, some arising even from mythology, the novel The Jester "weaves" parallel worlds that intersect very inspired and exciting, creating a tumultuous universe of the story. Captive in a harsh family environment, with multiple deprivations, an environment from which he wants to escape, the narrator comes into contact, one day, with the world of itinerant jesters in which, suddenly, he sees a rescue from his miserable condition, a formula of protest. "Masked" against abuse. Even if his dreaming is stopped by the brutal intervention of the father, the child continues, through bold, risky, imaginary actions or not, defying parental authority, to build his own world, "wandering" from time to time and "funny" dreams. . He thus finds himself caught, most of the time, without his will, in a series of events full of suspense, in which the comic and the tragic intertwine at every step (he plays the role of a dragon disturbing the magic numbers of a famous wizard and provoking chaos, is sold by his vicious father to cannibal dwarfs, wakes up after a strong storm and a battle between mythological beings, fantastic, in the nest of Gheonoaia, the "experience" of death turns it into a billboard viewed by other characters, etc. ). It seems, an initiatory road, transforming all this series of adventures in fantastic worlds and in a grotesque real, a road sprinkled with trials, challenges, dangers, struggles that the narrator character must face. The novel captures through a unique style of exposition, through a spectacular drawing of the characters, through an inspired interweaving of narrative plans, through humor, fine irony, frothy dialogues, wonderful metaphors and attractive descriptions. Not to be missed!

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