Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi

Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781442692398
ISBN-13 : 1442692391
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Book Synopsis Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi by : Alan R. Perry

Download or read book Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi written by Alan R. Perry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-02-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovannino Guareschi (1908-1968) was an Italian journalist, humorist, and cartoonist best known for his short stories based on the fictional Catholic priest Don Camillo. In this study, Alan R. Perry explores the Don Camillo stories from the perspective of Christian hermeneutics, a unique approach and the best critical key to unlocking the richness of both the author and his tales. The stories of Don Camillo, the cantankerous but beloved priest, and his sidekick, Communist mayor Peppone, continue to entertain viewers and readers. Their Cold War adventures, mishaps, arguments, and reconciliations have a timeless quality, and their actions reflect endearing values that prevail even today. The stories delight, to be sure, but the best of them also force us to stop and think about how Guareschi so powerfully conveyed the Christian message of faith, hope, and love. To appreciate the true genius of Guareschi, Perry argues that we must delve deeper into the latent spiritual meaning that many of his stories contain. In reflecting popular understandings of the faith, the Don Camillo tales allow us to appreciate a sacred awareness of the world, an understanding communicated through objects, gestures, expressions, and actual religious rites. The first full-length scholarly examination of the Don Camillo stories to appear, this book offers a solid appreciation of Italian cultural values and discusses the ways in which those values were contested in the first decades of the Cold War.


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