Pinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover

Author:Robert Coover
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Pinocchio (Fictitious character) - Fiction, Fiction - General, Puppets, Coover, Venice (Italy) - Fiction, General & Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction, Literary, Fantasy, General, Psychological, Robert - Prose & Criticism, Venice (Italy), Older men, Modern fiction, Pinocchio (Fictitious characte, Pinocchio (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780802134851
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1997-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

PALAZZO DEI BALOCCHI

17. VIEW FROM THE CLOCK TOWER

Across the ruffled lead-colored waters of St. Mark's Basin, poised between crenellated Gothic fantasy and High Renaissance exuberance, Andrea Palladio's masterful church of San Giorgio Maggiore, with its sagging cheeks, carbuncular dome, and stiff cone-capped campanile at its rear (his grumbling companion has likened it to a belled cat with its tail in the air), sits gravely at anchor like an ordered thought within a confused sensuous dream, this damp dream called Venice, "the original wet dream," as his dear friend Eugenio likes to call it. The church's pale façade, caught obliquely in the winter sun's angular light and framed now between the two absurd columns of the Piazzetta like a carnival mask hung in a window, peers out past the growling, bobbing water traffic upon this shabby but bejeweled old tart of a city, the mystery of reason confronting the mystery of desire, and what it seems to be saying is: history, true, is at best a disappointment ("It is a fairy tale full of wind, master, you are right, an empty masquerade, a handful of dead flies "), but it is also, in spite of itself, beautiful

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