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«Un libro per adulti? Per giovani? Per giovanissimi? I romanzi di Walter Moers scavalcano questi interrogativi: i loro destinatari sono coloro che al leggere chiedono la felicità» - QUIRINO PRINCIPE Se Mefistofele si trasferisse a Zamonia, lì, tra pellestrelli e uova ponzanti, scarpolufi saccenti e shockkie innamorate, fantasmi cotti e mummie ciclopiche, lupi fogliosi e vedove candide, quasi sicuramente assumerebbe le sembianze di Succubio Malfrosto, l’accalappiastreghe municipale. E il sinistro figuro, eccellente alchimista e signore incontrastato della desolata città di Sledwaya, dove “chi è malato è sano e chi è cattivo è buono”, forse cercherebbe di prendere per la gola Eco, novello Faust, cratto talentuoso ma sul punto di morir di stenti, promettendo al suo palato i paradisi dell’arte culinaria, in cambio, semplicemente, del suo... grasso. Un altro capolavoro di Walter Moers magistralmente in equilibrio tra il brivido e la risata, tra l’orrido e il ridicolo, fra lo schifoso iperbolico e il grottesco, tra la citazione colta e la demenzialità più sublime.
- ISBN: 8869181243
- Casa Editrice: Salani
- Pagine: 416
- Data di uscita: 30-04-2015
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Let's just call it the adventures of Echo the Crat. Because that's what it is. Of course, that doesn't quite do the culinary genre justice, nor does the bargain to eat all he wants for the low, low price of being rendered into tallow for an evil old man quite do the stakes justice. That's merely the Leggi tutto
The English version can be found below. ----------- German Version: Ein kulinarisches Märchen nach meinem Geschmack! Das Märchen spielt an einem äußerst ungesunden Ort namens Sledwaya, an dem es „nach Äther und Eiter roch, nach Lebertran und Brechmittel, nach Jod und Tod“ (vgl. S. 9). Alles dreht sich Leggi tutto
This is a wonderful amalgamation of Goeste's masterpiece, Faust, a Frankenstein-esque horror story and the typical elements of a master-and-student wizard duo. Echo is a Krätzchen, cat-like creature capable of speech and since his owner has died, he's starving in the streets of Sledwaya. Sledwaya is Leggi tutto
I took this book on a recent trip, and it was the perfect vacation read. Eloquent talking cats, fantasy plants, evil villains who are also excellent chefs - well, there was almost no way I wouldn't like The Alchemaster's Apprentice . Walter Moers writes like a cheerful, erudite, and playful madman, a Leggi tutto
The back of this book has a review by the New York Times Book Review with the words "Cheerfully insane..." When I started this story I just didn't know if I could get into it. Walter Moers imagination is off the charts - it felt like I was being sat down and told a fairy tale with names being made up Leggi tutto
An almost-literal feast for fantasy lovers! Some years back, I read two books by Walter Moers: 'The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear' and 'The City of Dreaming Books' - both of them long and involved books, as I recall, and I enjoyed them immensely. To be honest, my reading tastes don't particularly Leggi tutto
Another winner by Walter Moers! This book follows Echo the Crat (a cat that can speak all creature's languages) as he is saved from starvation by the Alchemaster, Ghoolion. Ghoolion's proposal is to treat Echo to the most amazing culinary treats in order to fatten him up to then, well end his life t Leggi tutto
"Oben ist unten und hässlich ist schön."
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