- Paperback: 88 pages
- Publisher: Peter Owen (Mar 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0720608139
- ISBN-13: 978-0720608137
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 1.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,823,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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