The Crock of Gold

The Crock of Gold is an absurdist parable told in the fanciful style of fairy tales… In the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers… Their faces looked as though they were made of parchment, there was ink under their nails, and every difficulty that was......more

This is a hard book to describe. The plot, as much as there is one, involve two philosophers, a bunch of leprechauns, a crock of gold, two gods and police who can’t be bothered to investigate. It is a rambling book, where characters come and go as the author seemingly gets tired of them. The plot ta......more

Picked it up at a garage sale because it looked magical, and indeed it was. Funny and lovely and unpretentious, flipping between lyrically wise and hysterically judgmental (would be offensive, e.g. on gender analyses, if the passages weren't clearly in character and deliberate, and were later evened......more

Una favola come metafora della vita Assurdo, fantastico, fantasmagorico, esilarante, non-senso, brillante, folle ed assolutamente intelligente! Questi sono gli aggettivi che mi vengono in mente quando penso a questa sorta di favola-geniale che è “La pentola dell'oro”. Un viaggio sulla vita pieno di si......more

Why has no one told me about James Stephens before? This daft Irish fairytale is everything one could hope for(at least, considering when it was written), with leprecauns (Stephens's spelling), gods, shee (again, his spelling), philosophers, policemen, and more. Hear ye the first part of the opening......more