Alice's adventures in wonderland

R$ 119,90

Sinopse

Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is, for most children, pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new". There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle and the Mad Hatter, together with a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser", seemingly without moral or sense. For more than 130 years, children have revelled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing and branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings, reproduced here, are inextricably tied to the well-loved story.

Participantes

Autor: Lewis Carroll

Ilustrador: Tove Jansson

Autor

TOVE JANSSON

Tove Jansson (Finlândia, 1914-2001) publicou, aos 15 anos, seus primeiros desenhos na revista de inclinações políticas progressistas Garm, e logo depois saiu de casa para frequentar a academia de arte Konstfack, em Estocolmo. Aos 19, deu prosseguimento aos estudos na escola de desenho da Sociedade Artística de Helsinki, na Galeria Nacional Finlandesa, ao mesmo tempo em que viajava expondo sua arte pela Finlândia e pelo restante do continente. Em 1938, foi estudar em Paris, na Ecole d'Adrien Holy e na Ecole des Beaux Arts, e ao final da década já era reconhecida como uma das jovens artistas mais talentosas de seu país. A vaidade e a vacuidade do mundo da arte moderna estão refletidos no primeiro volume de Mumin, no qual Jansson ridiculariza sua própria natureza romântica.