por: Gregory Maguire
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781417797462
ISBN: 1417797460
Etiqueta: San Val
Fabricante: San Val
Cantidad de Medios: 1
Fecha de Publicación: Abril 24, 2007
Editor: San Val
Estudio: San Val
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Product Description:
Following the traditions of Gabriel GarcÍa Marqu,z, John Gardner and J.R.R. Tolkien, Wicked is a richly woven tale that takes us to the other, darker side of the rainbow as novelist Gregory Maguire chronicles the Wicked Witch of the West's odyssey through the complex world of Oz -- where people call you wicked if you tell the truth.
Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin -- no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or to overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters the university in Shiz, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz' most promising young citizens.
Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals -- those creatures with voices, souls and minds -- are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals -- even it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Even wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.
In Wicked, Gregory Maguire has taken the largely unknown world of Oz and populated it with the power of his own imagination. Fast-paced, fantastically real and supremely entertaining, this is a novel of vision and re-vision. Oz never will be the same again.
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- Interesting reflection on evilWhile this novel takes the traditional Wizard of Oz tale, the interesting thing about is not the alterations to the story line, but the questions raised by the author. Is Elphaba doomed to be "evil" by nature, her green skin, sharp teeth and aversion to water, or is it the lack of nurturing from her parents that cause her self absorption and anti-social behavior. Is the fact that her mother never paid her attention and is that any excuse for the way she treats her son? Is her killing of her old teacher, though most probably guilty of murdering the professor, the meeting out of long due justice or the killing of a poor old lady? With the blatant correlation to the wizard and his practices to Germany in the 1940s, it is asked of the reader to ponder about several things, correct governance, family responsibility and most importantly, do people have the ability to self determine or is it rather the situations that form us.
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- Gregory Maguire's Magnum OpusA century after its publication, "The Wizard of Oz" remains an American classic and perhaps the quintessential American fairy tale. This is due in large part to the eclectic cast of characters, from Dorothy and Toto to the titular Wizard. And then of course there is the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy's bête noir and one of the most iconic villains of American literature and cinema. She is an absolute, the terror of Oz and readers didn't question it. If you were to examine the Witch in greater detail, however, certain questions might emerge. How did the Wicked With take over Winkie Country? Why did she and her sister never array their forces against the Emerald City? And why was her skin green?
"Wicked" begins 38 years before the Witch's fateful encounter with Dorothy. Oz is a land of peace, if not stagnation. It is the end of an age as in the heart of Munchkinland, the birth of a young girl named Elphaba Thropp will change the course of Oz's history forever. The book is ... Leer Más
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- DissapointingIt was with much anticipation that I settled down to begin Wicked. It seemed to be exactly my kinda thing - a retelling of a classic, from the "bad guy's" point of view.
I wasn't sure what to think at first. There were some overly crude sexual referrances which were a bit too much and the writing was... wordy. But the characters were interesting, and the concept alone kept me hooked, hoping to be impressed.
It's just that not really all that much seems to happen in this book. Many of the major events actually happen off-stage, even though they concern the main characters. Whole chunks of time are skipped, often leaving me feeling like I've missed out after discovering what happened during those gaps. I was left with too many questions unanswered, and feeling like I'd been cheated out of a few hours of my time: the book could have been told in half the pages. There were a lot of events that just seemed... pointless, never to really go anywhere or be resolved or explained. ... Leer Más
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- How did he do that?The author pulls off an amazing story. Throughout the book you find the innocent Elphaba slowly gathering around herself the things that make her a terrible witch, but they are all explained with perfect logic so that when Dorothy finally shows up an increadible thing happens: You the reader can actually switch back and forth, like looking at a clever optical illusion of a 2-D cube, between Dorothy's perspective and the Witch's. Dorothy sees a dark castle, an army of familiars attacking her on her way to see the witch, an old crone living with the witch, a terrifying talking monkey who blabbers disterbing comments, and a dark green witch who goes on about strange people and events that Dorothy has never heard of. But with the Witch, we see instead just an old waterworks building she is forced to live in, the wonderful creatures she has befriended, her loving nanny now too old to speak coherently but still willing to help, a small monkey with whom Elphie has explored the possiblity of the existence ... Leer Más
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- very satisified customerI received this item it was well packaged and arrive within days of ordering. I am very satisified with my purchase. AAA+++
