Pimporello
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- 6,49 €
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- 6,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Dans l’Italie des années soixante, un mime des rues, Pimporello, recueille une jeune orpheline, Nina. Entre l’artiste vieillissant et désabusé et la petite fille triste et craintive va se nouer une relation filiale. Mais chacun des deux a menti à l’autre. Lui, pour éblouir l’enfant, s’est forgé un passé imaginaire et glorieux de clown génial. Elle, par peur de retourner à l’orphelinat, s’est inventé une famille. Cependant, la sincérité, la générosité, la tendresse des sentiments suffisent parfois à transformer mensonges en vérité, rêves en réalité.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Celebrated mime Marceau voices his personal artistic credo in this short, deceptively simple tale. Pimporello, a middle-aged, disillusioned Italian street mime down on his luck, befriends Nina, a shy, frightened orphan who idolizes him. Each deceives the other with a big white lie, the unmasking of which produces shattering consequences. Believing that his art reflects humanity's desire for a better life, for goodness, peace and justice, Pimporello feels he carries a heavy burden. There is a grand, dreamlike epiphany involving a circus, and at the end the reader, along with the street mime, is left wondering which events were real, which illusory. Narrowly avoiding sentimentality, this magical, engaging story is a parable on the risk-taking artist who creates reality through artifice. Marceau's puckish, ethereal drawings amplify the text.
