Paperback
Italian language
Published March 28, 2007 by Marcos y Marcos.
La principessa sposa
- ISBN:
- 9788871684642
3 stars
(4 reviews)
Un celebre sceneggiatore è disperatamente a caccia di una copia del romanzo chiave della propria infanzia. Quel romanzo gli aveva spalancato orizzonti impensati, rivelato uno strumento strepitoso: la lettura. Darebbe un occhio pur di trovarlo, vorrebbe regalarlo al figlio viziato e annoiato, sperando che il prodigio si ripeta. Quando ne agguanta una copia, si rende conto che molti capitoli noiosi erano stati tagliati dalla sapiente lettura ad alta voce del padre. Decide di riscriverlo. Togliere lungaggini e divagazioni. Rendere scintillante la "parte buona". La magia si realizza. Il risultato è straordinario. Si parte da una cotta clamorosa, un amore eterno tra un garzone di stalla e la sua splendida padrona, che sembra naufragare a causa di una disgrazia marittima. C'è poi il di lei fidanzamento con un principe freddo ecalcolatore. Poi c'è un rapimento, un lungo inseguimento, molte sfide: il ritmo cresce, l'atmosfera si arroventa. Il trucco della riscrittura - …
Un celebre sceneggiatore è disperatamente a caccia di una copia del romanzo chiave della propria infanzia. Quel romanzo gli aveva spalancato orizzonti impensati, rivelato uno strumento strepitoso: la lettura. Darebbe un occhio pur di trovarlo, vorrebbe regalarlo al figlio viziato e annoiato, sperando che il prodigio si ripeta. Quando ne agguanta una copia, si rende conto che molti capitoli noiosi erano stati tagliati dalla sapiente lettura ad alta voce del padre. Decide di riscriverlo. Togliere lungaggini e divagazioni. Rendere scintillante la "parte buona". La magia si realizza. Il risultato è straordinario. Si parte da una cotta clamorosa, un amore eterno tra un garzone di stalla e la sua splendida padrona, che sembra naufragare a causa di una disgrazia marittima. C'è poi il di lei fidanzamento con un principe freddo ecalcolatore. Poi c'è un rapimento, un lungo inseguimento, molte sfide: il ritmo cresce, l'atmosfera si arroventa. Il trucco della riscrittura - arricchito da brillanti "fuori campo" dell'autore - l'incanto di personaggi teneri o diabolici, i dialoghi perfetti, fanno crescere il romanzo a livelli stellari. Disfide, cimenti, odio e veleni, certo. Ma anche vera passione, musica, nostalgia.
Hella reviewed The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Prototype of a Damsel in Distress Book
4 stars
This is a romantic story about true love, fights and insidiousness, magic and wonder, staged in a ruritanian fantasy country somewhere in Europe.
I've read this book quite late in my live (and have not seen the film until now), so maybe some of the magic got lost in my immortal cynicism (this was written after I took the red pill).
Buttercup, a beauty living on a farm, finds her True Love in Winsley, the farm boy, who plans to go to America to succeed before he wants to come back - for her. And then Winsley is said to be killed by the dreaded Pirate Roberts. Buttercup - thinking that her loved is killed - surrenders to the courting of Prince Humperdinck. Before the marriage she gets kidnapped by Spanish fencing master Inigo Montoya, Fezzik the gigantic wrestler from Turkey and the smart Sicilian criminal Vezzini. But they get …
This is a romantic story about true love, fights and insidiousness, magic and wonder, staged in a ruritanian fantasy country somewhere in Europe.
I've read this book quite late in my live (and have not seen the film until now), so maybe some of the magic got lost in my immortal cynicism (this was written after I took the red pill).
Buttercup, a beauty living on a farm, finds her True Love in Winsley, the farm boy, who plans to go to America to succeed before he wants to come back - for her. And then Winsley is said to be killed by the dreaded Pirate Roberts. Buttercup - thinking that her loved is killed - surrenders to the courting of Prince Humperdinck. Before the marriage she gets kidnapped by Spanish fencing master Inigo Montoya, Fezzik the gigantic wrestler from Turkey and the smart Sicilian criminal Vezzini. But they get overwhelmed one by one by a mysterious man in black (this was before the science fiction comedy film of that name).
It is beyond question a damn prototype of a Damsel in Distress Book (this was before emancipation glanced Hollywood or after a bitter divorce). Buttercup is mostly subject, not object to kidnapping, murder and fights. Of course she is beautiful, devout and loving. One gets to like Inigo Montoya and Fezzik. The light told naive story lives from its exaggerations, its interspersed brackets with funny comments and of course of the frame narrative. The author tells us that the story was written by someone else and he only did the abridgment, since his father read "only the good parts" to him as child. He rants about his wife, makes fun of film making and book writing.
To my (later) edition there is also an attachment "Buttercups Baby" which is superfluous, it might have been the try to do start a second book which was not finished or whatever.
Key Sentence: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya; you killed my father; prepare to die!"
My rating: Four of five stars (this is because of dormant damsel in distress and superfluous chapters (with a strong female lead and more discipline in ending the book I'd say six stars of five (which would be beyond logic ) ) ) ( yes, I do count my brackets, I've learned LISP in early days).
(Review written 2015-04, shortly after reading the book. Haven't read it again)
mirabilos reviewed The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Review of 'The Princess Bride' on 'Goodreads'
possibly the movie instead
summary sounds meh to me though it comes highly recommended shrug
Amber Dickson reviewed The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Review of 'The Princess Bride' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I've read this before, and I enjoyed revisiting the book, but I think I actually prefer the movie... Anyway, this time I read it aloud for my kids, 11 and 8 years old. Doing the dialogue the same as it was in the film was a lot of fun! One star off for the author's interruptions and for "Buttercup's Baby" (which I wish I had skipped entirely) as they detracted from the flow of the story.