Three masterpieces, on the border between essay and poetry, three essential authors, the marvelous and the sinister, the trivial and the sublime, and in any case the enigmatic and poetic.
Three key writers of literary history of the last centuries in these brief essays reflect on the reality and the role of dolls, toys or puppets in the life of man, especially a child. These objects, on the one hand, seem to have their own life, but otherwise do not respond or react as you would a living being, are a source of puzzlement for the observer and enclose a mystery, an enigma, which is relevant to the poet, who discovers between these objects and the man a strange affinity or family resemblance. Focusing on different aspects, or even, strictly speaking, different cipos of -marionetas objects, toys or wrists, the three authors open up unusual perspectives and some disturbing case on b...read more
