THE LITTLE WORLD OF DON CAMILLO BY GIOVANNI GUARESCHI
Charles Darwin said that as he aged fewer and fewer things gave him delight. That’s a melancholy reflection which I hope will not be true of me. However, it’s perhaps becoming a rarer experience for me to be seized with delight.
That however was my experience on reading the Little World of Don Camillo. I think I had encountered it years ago in my grandfather’s house, when I was around ten, along with Father Brown, and Georges Simenon. I read like a bulldozer then, tenaciously, but didn’t make much of them, and so haven’t read them again.
Until now. With sheer delight. The ingenuity of his imagination! The loveableness of his characters. His understanding of the nature of prayer. His understanding of Christ, severe, with standards, yet willing to indulge and play with his faithful servant. With a sense of humour. Don Camillo discourses with Christ much as Peter might have, and Christ’s responses, as unconventional as His were in real life, are wholly believable, though often surprising.
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Charles Darwin said that as he aged fewer and fewer things gave him delight. That’s a melancholy reflection which I hope will not be true of me. However, it’s perhaps becoming a rarer experience for me to be seized with delight.
That however was my experience on reading the Little World of Don Camillo. I think I had encountered it years ago in my grandfather’s house, when I was around ten, along with Father Brown, and Georges Simenon. I read like a bulldozer then, tenaciously, but didn’t make much of them, and so haven’t read them again.
Until now. With sheer delight. The ingenuity of his imagination! The loveableness of his characters. His understanding of the nature of prayer. His understanding of Christ, severe, with standards, yet willing to indulge and play with his faithful servant. With a sense of humour. Don Camillo discourses with Christ much as Peter might have, and Christ’s responses, as unconventional as His were in real life, are wholly believable, though often surprising.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000KLJUWS/ref=dp_olp_1/202-4701762-4557449?ie=UTF8&qid=1219523063&sr=1-12
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Camillo-Omnibus-Prodigal-Comrade/dp/0575018445/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219523131&sr=1-2
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