Summary
Ugo Cornia: Fables from the Correctional Facility
"WARNING! These are not fables for children; these are fables for adults who want to laugh, feel uncomfortable, and indulge their imaginations.
Welcome to the correctional facility for all that is unruly and inappropriate in us. In these fables, Ugo Cornia does what no decent person would do: he turns fairy tales upside down, pushes animals into absurd situations, breaks taboos and shows how funny and terrifying the world really is.
There is nothing 'pedagogical' here.
Ugo Cornia allows his heroes to fall apart, fall in love, gossip, make love, rot, dream, lie and die in the most absurd ways. The wolf and the sheep in the forest end up in a relationship that is far dirtier than the one in the fairy tale immediately closed the book. Animals act as plaster sculptures to survive capitalism. And the whole swamp spreads gossip faster than social media.
These are fables that expose the insanity of the world we live in: grotesque, brutally funny and painfully accurate.
If you've ever been annoyed that fairy tales lie, Cornia offers you the truth: dirty, hilarious, and terrifyingly close.
For readers who like sharp satire, fables that go beyond their genre, and Aesop, the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault - if only they were a little more cheeky."
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