by Adalbert von Chamisso · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811364764
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«Storia straordinaria di Peter Schlemihl» is the fantasy novel by Adalbert von Chamisso, published by Garzanti in paperback (160 pages, in Italian).
The volume brings together the tale of Peter Schlemihl, a man who sells his shadow to the devil in exchange for wealth and discovers that the pact condemns him to solitude and social rejection. The lost shadow becomes an ambiguous symbol of identity and conscience, in a critique of a world where everything has a price. It is completed with other writings on the double and evil.
Edition from the I grandi libri collection, number 476, published by Garzanti in 2007.
For readers of classics of fantasy literature and tales about pacts with the devil and identity.
