Catalogo storico Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Ian- nuzzi, Storie di uomini e libri. As mentioned above, sometime this caused a novel to be published elsewhere, or — more often — the transla- tion to be cut to fit the standard measure. Frequently translators reduced the original texts by meticulously eliminating what they considered not strictly necessary to the plot. The cover, by Curt Caesar — the illustrator to be found on the most part of the issues of this first season of the magazine —, is characterized by techni- cal precision and bright colors, and it is a remake of the original American cover, illustrated by John McDermott.
In the original drawing a man is car- rying a sleeping woman in his arms. In the background, there is a street with telephone poles and shops, which look abandoned, and an ominous yellow- green sky. The Italian version shows a few small but significant changes to the scene. In the American version the woman wears a gown leaving her arms and lower legs uncovered while on the Italian cover she is fully dressed with a skirt, knee socks, shoes and a blouse.
The scene is no longer one of a village street but of the countryside, we can see the town far in the distance behind the couple. A cactus, added in the Italian version on the left side of the picture, seems to be there as a sign of American exoticism for the readers probably inspired by a typical western setting. The text of the original blurb on the back cover of the first edition reads as follows: Miles Bennell the same story. Some sort of mass delusion, he thought, until one night he looked down at the sleeping form of the woman he was to marry — and wondered who she was.
This is sharply detailed story of the terror that engulfed a small California town, and of a young doctor who had to destroy it… or to be destroyed by it. E non sono paz- za, dottore, mi creda! But soon the mysterious case to be solved is turned into an apocalyptic situation, with the emphatic announcement: Working on Finney, La Bruna made some hasty choices: Major cuts can in the translation concern the internal monologues of the protagonist.
At that time the series was going through the delicate passage between the editing of Monicelli, who left in October , and the arrival of his successor, Carlo Fruttero, who appears as the new editor in May Lucentini, Fantascienza, in I ferri del mestiere. Manuale involontario di scrittura con esercizi svolti, Einaudi, Torino , pp. Iannuzzi, Fantascienza italiana, cit. Lippi, I curatori di Urania. Thole reinterpreted the same theme, with his notable style: The dark shades, the composition, the movement of the man, forced to defend himself from the bottom up, embody the sensation of being trapped and increasing anxiety that permeates the narration.
The same goes for the translation of the title: For once the Italian title is less explicit than the original and in place of summarizing the subject of the plot, it alludes to the regularity of a process yet unknown by the reader, focusing on an element — the mathematical constant of the reduction — that in the novel makes the protagonist feel doomed and impotent.
The translation shows, from the first pages, a general tendency for impre- cision and simplification of lexical nuances: Along with adjectives or adverbs, whole sentences are dropped: We can distinguish even more remarkable kinds of cuts: The more that Scott Carey shrinks, the more he gradually becomes isolated from his family and from society, and feeling like a freak of nature and a drop out. The occurrences of sexual content disappear from the Italian version, whether they be allusions, fantasies, thoughts and recollections or events.
Luigi Rapuzzi as Louis R. The only Italian name appearing on the cover was that of Franco Enna pseudonym of Francesco Cannarozzo , already famous for his crime stories.
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In their first attempts at the genre, these Italian authors tried to assimilate the repertoire of themes introduced by the Anglo-Americans. For example, 33 Entire pages of the original novel missing in the translation are: Matheson, The Shrinking Man, cit. Iannuzzi, Archivi di finzione e costruzione del patto narrativo nei romanzi di Luigi Rapuzzi. Archivi ideali e archivi reali, edited by C. Pupino, ETS, Pisa , pp. Iannuzzi, Fantascienza itali- ana, cit. See Cozzi, La storia di Urania, vol. Cozzi, La storia di Urania e della fantascienza in Italia, voll. Rapuzzi under the pseudonym L. Four, and so on.
The stories of Vittorio Curtoni and Gianni Montanari are somewhat similar: It is interesting to note that the increasing attention given to translations and their quality was proportioned to that showed to science fiction writ- ten by Italian authors and its emancipation from foreign models.
The Translation Phenomenon, towards Assimilation and Re-use The story of science fiction in Italy during the second half of the Nineteenth century is a fascinating history of intercultural relationships. The translation of the Anglo-American tra- dition has to be identified not only with that of novels and short stories, but also of publish- ing formulas, repertoires of themes, imagery, all of which were rapidly assimilated by Italian authors, who soon moved from imitation to attempts of original re-use.
These phenomena can also be considered a vivid example of greater cultural and economical dynamics: In fine alcuni riferimenti sono riservati ai processi e ai protagonisti che caratterizzeranno le stagioni successive della fantascienza italiana. Large chunks of his life are gone in seconds and he misses out on actually living and enjoying life in the smaller moments.
I am not sure if this was any influence on "Click," but it's fascinating to read how Matheson works with the same concept--and might I say, actually does it a lot better. My favorite two stories in the collection are among the shorter. One is called "The Test" and presents a future in which citizens are given a test past a certain age to determine if they are still useful to society. If they fail, they are given a month to live and then killed. The story looks at the impact of this on a family, the stress and how the younger generation begins to see the value of older generations diminished.
The story of a young son agonizing over the fact that he voted for the measure and that his father will fail the test is well done. To see how the son debates between having the father gone from his life and how he's a "burden" to the family really drives the story along. The ending is inevitable and heartbreaking. This could be my favorite story from the collection. The other story is a model of economy.
Clocking in at four pages, "By Appointment Only" tells the story of a barber who takes patients by appointment only. His one patient isn't feeling well, having just come from the doctor. There's a fascinating twist half way though and the story leaves you haunted. Basically, the barber has married a woman who practices voo-doo and is using hair and nail clippings to keep the customers sick and get kick backs from the doctor in question. It's four pages long, but it gets in, gets out and packs the punch it needs. The revelation of what's going on is nicely done, coming in one of the final paragraphs.
But in just four pages, Matheson ably sets up a mystery and then solves in a satisfying manner that stuck with me long after I'd moved on to other stories in the book. As for the story, I didn't like, it concerns a guy moving into the neighborhood and manipulating the neighbors into various acts. It's interesting and maybe I've read or seen other stories like it, so I kind of had an idea of what was going on early in the story. It's not a terrible story, but it's just not as good as the others in this collection. The Incredible Shrinking Man: The doctors have figured out why — he was exposed to a combination of insecticide and radioactivity — but so far they have not been able to make him stop shrinking.
Great, scary little book. Quite an ordeal, survival in a world not made for your new size and a giant spider making your attempt a living hell. The end of the book left me with a different perspective on my surrounding world and my life within it. I lack the words to tell you how good this novel is. It would be best if you read it yourself.
The last time I watched Jack Arnold's film version of this novel, which was four or five years ago, I realized that I remembered every moment of it from the handful of viewings I had given it since it first made it to television in the 's. I think it is the definitive science fiction film of the 's, and I know that opinion is open to challenges, but Arnold's film has been selected for the National Registry by the National Film Preservation Board.
I had never felt the need to read Ma The last time I watched Jack Arnold's film version of this novel, which was four or five years ago, I realized that I remembered every moment of it from the handful of viewings I had given it since it first made it to television in the 's. I had never felt the need to read Matheson's short novel, and on some level assumed that it would be a pulpy rendition of the more thoughtful film, but a recent interest in Matheson as a writer finally got me to pick up the book.
I did not read the Classics of Science Fiction edition pictured here. I read a Tor mass market edition that includes several classic short stories. It has a great cover but some of the most piss-poor copy editing of anything I have ever read. I do not recommend it. Matheson tells the story of Scott Carey, the six foot three family man who undergoes the inexplicable shrinking process, by starting with the spider. I assume that it is unlikely that anyone reading this has not seen the film, so I not concerned about spoilers, And of course every edition of the book for the past 60 years has had a little man and big spider on the cover.
Arnold's film follows a strict narrative line and tells the story in an efficient 81 minutes. The chain of accidents that had trapped him in his cellar, as well as the entire agonizing story of his deteriorating physical condition and his relationship to the full-sized world, is told in flashbacks.
Carey is not always particularly sympathetic, although you have to admit he is facing extraordinary challenges. But when he is difficult to his wife, family, media, and the doctors eager to study his condition, he is fighting for his dignity as a human being -- and more specifically as an American male of the 's. That last angle must stand out more strongly now that when the book was written, but the scenes where he confronts a drunken pedophile who mistakes him for a young teen, or mindlessly vicious, 's-style juvenile delinquents are painful reading.
Even more excruciating is Matheson's chronicle of Carey's deteriorating relationship with his wife. The final pages of the book, as Carey loses all physical presence but realizes that he is still part of the infinite universe, is one of the greatest moments in mid 20th century science fiction. You can watch that moment on You Tube. Just know that in Matheson's version, God does not figure into the equation. This is a great story about a shrinking man. It really puts you in the increasingly larger shoes of a shrinking man.
When a friend of mine saw the cover, they aske "is that like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book? The narrative jumps around between the shrinking man at roughly an inch battling a giant spider, to various points and sizes leading up to that. Imagine how you would be treated if people thought you were a child, imagine realizing your wif This is a great story about a shrinking man.
Imagine how you would be treated if people thought you were a child, imagine realizing your wife doesn't want to bone you any more. This is far from Choose Your Own Adventure, this is intense, psychological examination of what it would be like to shrink As you can imagine this poses him more than a few challenges.
Perhaps best not to read this if you're scared of spiders! What will happen to him in the end? An excellent book, very well written, I loved it. Un'inezia, un cambiamento praticamente impercettibile all'inizio, dall'alto del suo metro e novanta. Ma il tempo passa. La somma di tanti cambiamenti impercett Un libro sorprendente. La somma di tanti cambiamenti impercettibili diventa un insieme percettibile, il metro e novanta si riduce al metro e settanta della moglie, poi cala ulteriormente, inesorabilmente.
Le visite mediche, costose e specialistiche, non ottengono risultati, non trovano niente. Una parte che sa di Gulliver e di Robinson Crusue, oltre che di infinite opere successive a questo libro. L'ingegno umano, la determinazione alla sopravvivenza malgrado tutto e tutti, la trasformazione di un ambiente comune in una giungla piena di pericoli e di sfide mortali, come il salire sul tavolo di vimini armato solo dei propri arti, di un po' di filo e di una scheggia di legno. Ma seguiamo anche, contemporaneamente, la discesa verso gli inferi di Scott, il suo crollo mentale parallelo alla perdita di altezza e di dimensioni.
Di un nano, di un lillipuziano da far vivere in una casa delle bambole. E il suo rapporto con la stampa varia continuamente dal rifiuto di venire messo in mostra come un fenomeno da baraccone, alla cupa accettazione di contratti per sfamare la famiglia e pagare le spese mediche. E' l'uomo comune buttato in un incubo kafkiano, gettato nell'orrore, alle prese con il disfacimento del proprio corpo e del proprio io.
E alla fine, la somma di tutte le esperienze passate si traduce nello scontro con il ragno, negli ultimi giorni di esistenza di Scott. Un libro davvero emozionante, scritto benissimo. I get the feeling Matheson had read the classic short story He Who Shrank before he wrote this. Stephen King wrote a lot about this novel in one of his non-fiction books. This was sort of a negative indicator, because King also praise Simak's Ring Around the Sun which is a dog.
However in this case King is spot on.
The horror is not only the physical threats of cats, birds, children, and spiders, but of most of man's basic fears: The main character goes through all of it. Matheson's second book is something of a flipside to his first. It features a similar "man against the world" feel. The protagonist is heavily flawed and the kind of person who rarely thinks ahead.
He is run entirely by emotions. Works too hard to achieve very small goals. His shrinking keeps his humanity at more or less the same level, his personality is the same. And yet, he accomplishes great things as he shrinks. Writes a book, keeps his family financially solvent, survives in a basement for Matheson's second book is something of a flipside to his first.
Writes a book, keeps his family financially solvent, survives in a basement for three months alone, fights off a giant spider many times his size and It differs from "I Am Legend" in the ending. Rather than a somewhat bleak ending life snubbing out , Scott Carey gets a whole new life spread out before him.
Life as no man has ever seen it is open to him and he will experience incredible adventures and vistas long after the book has ended. While Robert Neville will live forever in legend, Scott Carey will explore the microverse. Now he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth.
Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter. Scott Carey has begun to shrink. At first Carey tries to continue some sort of normal life. Later, having left human conflict behind, he must survive in a world where insects and spiders are giant enemies. And even that is only a stage on his ultimate journey into the unknown. The novel however is far more than it may at first appear, particularly since I believe Gollancz would not put a title in their prestigious Masterworks series unless they felt justified in its inclusion.
What makes this novel more than a sensationalist pulp-fiction work is that Matheson concentrates on the psychological and social implications which first make themselves felt when Scott realises that his wife is taller than he is. Scott is already dependent on his brother for a job, but is criticised and patronised by his sister-in-law. Later, his wife unconsciously begins treating him as a child and even driving a car another benchmark of American masculinity becomes difficult.
Scott punctures a tyre and, too weak to change it, sets off on foot and is lured into another car by a drunken paedophile. His sexual frustration is exacerbated by clandestine stalking of the teenage babysitter his wife hires to look after their child while she goes out to work another emasculating factor.
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During this period Scott is locked in the cellar in order that Catherine, the babysitter, will not unexpectedly wander into the cellar and discover him. Scott briefly regains a degree of self-esteem when he meets a female midget at a local circus, but this hiatus is short-lived. Tellingly, Scott also has to do daily battle with a Black Widow spider which - we are reminded in the text — is female; the males of the species being consumed by their partners after mating. Whether there is some metaphor in this final destruction of a malevolent female force is unclear. But then this was the Nineteen-Fifties, and it was America, so any explanation regarding radioactivity was guaranteed to add an additional frisson of paranoia.
It is undoubtedly a minor classic and deserves to be re-filmed by a director who can concentrate on the issues that Matheson was actually writing about. Grimly absurd diminutive epic. Scott Carey, a somewhat embittered everyman, is hit by radioactive spume on his successful brothers yacht, and begins a steady decline in size, from dwarf to living toy, and beyond. An absurd premise is handled beautifully by Matheson here, explored both in grimly realistic terms and contemplative pauses as the titular shrinker is struck dumb along with the reader about how cruel fortune can be.
Carey is a pitiful, self-loathing character whose outlook forms the cent Grimly absurd diminutive epic. For me, the setting is as convincing as …Legend ,perhaps more so, as we obtain such a convincingly normal portrait of the main character at the start of the story, and a thus heightened contrast when we experience a man driven to the brink by the loss of all he understands.
The sections where Carey is insect sized are gut wrenching survival epics in meticulous detail, a struggle for crumbs and water in an alien environment. These are interesting when set in context-ideas of masculinity, and obliquely the middle class lifestyle, are called to the fore, in a thoughtful and sometimes touching way.
Matheson knows the ridiculousness of the central concept, and even seems to use it for darkly comic effect at times. A tragic moment atop a refrigerator-requiring an hour long climb to a potential food source-has Carey screaming with rage and punching apart damp, man-sized crackers, Charlton Heston style. In all, a marvellous addition to any sci-fi fans bookshelf, let alone anyone interested in introspective horror or well written pulp.
Just came across this nice little this quote in an interview with Matheson you can read at www. My book was not called the Incredible Shrinking Man as it if is often referred to , it was just called The Shrinking Man. The phrase Incredible Shrinking has became part of the American language. Why add the adjective? Richard Matheson is a well deserved master of the strange and fantastic. I'd watched the film version as a kid and thought I knew the story, but no, Matheson draws his characters from life and gives them life.
The story begins on a boat that sails through a radioactive cloud, Scott Carey feels his skin begin to tingle and carefully wipes himself off.
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The next s Richard Matheson is a well deserved master of the strange and fantastic. The next scene Scott Carey is less than an inch high and he's trapped in the basement of the home he once shared with his wife and daughter. He is constantly searching for food and water. He is also besieged by a Black Widow spider. The novel is episodic, switching back and forth from his present, being less than an inch high, interspersed with his remembrances of his life as it was discovered that he had begun to shrink.
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He had doctors stumped as they could find nothing wrong in all the tests they could think to run. Nothing helped, he just continued to shrink at the rate of an inch a week. Matheson doesn't skimp over anything, he follows the time both present and past with an unerring eye for drama. Drama as in outside influences, but Mr. Matheson doesn't just give the reader things outside, he gets into the mind of Scott Carey, and even that of his wife Louise.
At once the tale is an adventure novel of life threatening proportions, and yet at the same time Matheson pulls at the heart-strings of a man that is slowly losing his world, his wife and daughter, and quite possibly his life. Though written in , this novel does not read a bit dated. The ending is realistic and even a bit hopeful.
I recommend this novel, highly. Living beneath the degrading weight of his affliction, he had forgotten it. Looking at his marrige and his inadequacy in it, he had forgotten it. Looking at his life and the barrenness of that life's achievements, he had forgotten it. The diminishing effect that the size of his body had on the size of his thoughts had made him forget it.
It had not just been introspection. All he'd had to do was look into a mirror to know that it was so. And yet it was not so. A "It was true; he was still a man. A man's self-estimation was, in the end, a matter of relativity. I want to say that this could have been written today, but I don't actually think that is true. I think if this book was written today, it would be laden with a more of an agenda.
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Lo recomiendo sin dudarlo. Y ahora, a por los relatos de Matheson. Even though I've only read his older stuff and short stories, seeing as so many mixed reviews have been scaring me off of his newer works, I will definitely give them a shot just because I need more of the fantastic and believable stories he can create! What is it that makes a man?
Is size an essential part of it? Matheson takes us on a journey through the ever diminishing life of a man, as he struggles with inner and outer demons in a world that has now become foreign and hostile to him.
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A thoroughly enjoyable and mind-opening read. Let me preface this review with a comment. Once more for the guy in the back, I think he was talking. He's far and away my favorite author, and for good reason. His novels and short stories are classics in every sense of the word. It would be hard for me to pinpoint the exact reason why this author resonates with me so much.
Is it because his ideas are both nostalgic yet somehow timeless? Is it because he's influ Let me preface this review with a comment. Is it because he's influenced so many authors, as well as a slew of movies that range from terrible to Or is it because the word "Hard on" can be found in his name, and I'm nothing if I'm not a middle schooler at heart? I can't say the exact reason why, but this author never disappoints me. I'm pretty sure I didn't , we can talk about the review at hand. One of my favorite books by him, and my personal introduction to the author: As he wastes away to literally nothing, he faces off against a slew of obstacles that a normal sized man could easily fight, including a spider, a cat, and a particularly naughty group of teenagers.
The thing that Matheson does expertly in this novel, and the main reason this book is one of my favorites, is the unending sense of dread. The main narrative chronicles the last week of his life.
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Interspersed are flashes of his life before he becomes Ant-Man, where he relates the strain that shrinking had on his marriage and sex life. This isn't a joke. That happens If you're in the mood for a creepy story that takes a fantastical premise and turns it surprisingly human, then pick this up.
And if this is your first Matheson story, I envy you. As always, Matheson is great at creating a slowly building sense of terror. In the meantime, Scott Carey spends the rest of his time going about the mundane tasks of trying to stay alive. I think Matheson does a good job of exploring the psychology of why Mr Carey continues to fight to survive, when he already knows he has a fixed end date. Le style de Matheson est excellent entre: I wish Richard wrote many more books.
He has unique style of taking you along with his writing, this is one of the rare book which effected me so much even after completing the book. A very powerful takeaway towards the end Feb 22, D. This novel was an excellent read, but the movie was hilarious, for the genre Hard to put this one down. I have never been disappointed in a Richard Matheson story. Find them on Netflix and enjoy. A thoughtful, powerful story, with a reflective tone throughout and a wonderfully beautiful ending.