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Alice in Wonderland

Including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

By Lewis Carroll

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| Hardcover | 9780787119782

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A book that made my childhood. To read first in English and then in translation: some translators are wonderful acrobats and this book is a challenge for every translator. But you can come out alive.

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Carolina Ramos said on Oct 13, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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Said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad.You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad ?" said Alice.
"You must be or you wouldn't have come here"
...per l'appunto.

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Pollapollina said on Jul 5, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Non-sense

Written by a paedophile maths lecturer in Oxford, C. L. Dodgson, the two Alice books both witness the author's love for the young daughter of the Dean of Oxford Prof. Liddell (co-author of one of the most important Ancient Greek vocabularies in history, by the way) and deal mainly with language. The ... (continue)

Written by a paedophile maths lecturer in Oxford, C. L. Dodgson, the two Alice books both witness the author's love for the young daughter of the Dean of Oxford Prof. Liddell (co-author of one of the most important Ancient Greek vocabularies in history, by the way) and deal mainly with language. The main tasks of Alice are understanding the meaning of the world she falls in and coping with the strange, adult characters that inhabit it. In fact, there are no other kids in the story, no figures that can be used as Alice's mirrors, as it were.
The strangeness of these characters is not limited to their physical appearance, but extends to the way they use words.
Humpty Dumpty arrives at paying words that serve him well.
Moreover, Alice confronts some problems that are typical of the Bildungsroman, like identity, bodily change, relations with the adult world and so on. Finally, the book is also a satire of Victorian England, even if Dodgson, being very conservative, never touches the two main topics of satiric writing, namely religion and sex.

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Thaumazo said on Jan 28, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Il primo libro che abbia mai finito. Da bambina proprio non mi piaceva leggere!

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EnafromtheMoon said on May 7, 2012 | Add your feedback

Da LEGGERE IN INGLESE

o nella versione di Aldo Busi, con l'originale su una pagina e la traduzione su quella affianco. Rimane un libro intraducibile e che solo un madrelingua o una persona che conosce profondamente la cultura inglese (e la lingua) può apprezzare fino in fondo.

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Chiara said on Apr 7, 2012 | Add your feedback