Piccola Pucinellopedia

topic posted Sun, December 19, 2004 - 6:04 PM by  Unsubscribed
Luigi Serafini's earlier book is even more impossible to find but I just saw one on ebay!

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  • Re: Piccola Pucinellopedia

    Tue, December 18, 2007 - 6:12 PM
    i've uploaded some photos of the pulcinellopedia piccola to my profile, if anyone's interested in having a look.

    when i wrote to justin taylor for the english translation of calvino's intro, i also sent him images from the PP and he raised some interesting questions about the relationship between the two books:

    "I've read of the Pulcinellopedia but had never seen it before, so thanks for sending those images. They certainly have a lot in common, stylistically, with the images in the Codex-- especially the last one you attached, of the two people on the bed and then the empty bed with the sheet-rope leading out the window. Compare these renderings of a bed with the sex-turns-us-into-an-alligator sequence in the Codex (it's the cover image of some editions; my own, for example) and I think you'll see that it's the same piece of furniture, or at least manufactured by the same artisan. Also, there seems to be a symbolic connection, at the level that both image sequences depict a transition from presence to absence, though now that I'm looking at the P-pedia image again, I see that the two beds are in fact different widths, so perhaps my assumption of a sequence was premature, though the suggestion is obviously put there on purpose. Typically Serafinian, I think: an emphatic suggestion but hardly a guarantee, and possibly an intentional red-herring, furnished even with a few clues to its own falseness, if you can ferret them out."