You're an Animal, Viskovitz

Questo libro è bellissimo! Me l’ha regalato mia cugina a Natale dicendomi “ti piacerà sicuramente!”, e aveva ragione! Umorismo, biologia, e tanta umanità esprime Visko in ogni sua nuova “incarnazione”.
Boffa scrive veramente bene, sa dosare ironia e biologia in maniera egregia, e spero tanto abbia voglia di scrivere ancora, perché mi piacerebbe molto leggere altri suoi libri!
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Oh, this is very funny. The terminology is extremely scientific so you have to kind of stumble over the various words for animal reproductive organs and just imagine where they are located. However, that adds to the fun. This is erotica in code, sort of.

The one where Viskovitz becomes a praying mantis is my one of favorite. I won't give away the punchline, but it had me giggling in the cafe at work which prompted questions that made me blush when I had to answer.

I didn't finish this book. It is a cynical Russian author. The book is quite clever and the natural histories as metaphores for the human condition are unique, funny and interesting, but it is simply dirtier and more cynical than I desire to spend my time on.

Inconsueto, divertente ma anche profondo. Un Esopo moderno per sorridere e pensare in leggerezza.

Completely unreadable. Has the author ever read La Fontaine? Anatole France's "Penguin Island"? Aesop? Even Maeterlinck? This is adult Italian animal humor, like Roberto Benigni meets Isabella Rossellini's "Green Porno." A good test of the absence of a sense of humor.

I got this from a first-year reading list. Strange book where in each chapter Viskowitz becomes a different animal and he and his girlfriend (wife?) behave in the way the author envisions the animals would be have. Not much of a story line, probably intended to just prompt discussion. Consider what happens when they are mantises?!

Un caracol con dos sexos, un loro que habla de amor, un lirón que tiene sueños eróticos, un perro budista que lucha contra la droga, un microbio con complejo de inferioridad, un león enamorado de una gacela, un camaleón en busca de su propia identidad, un tiburón, un gusano, un escarabajo... Viskovitz es todos estos animales, y otros muchos, y lidia con sus extravagancias, neurosis y vanidades. Pero es la condición humana, con toda su dignidad y desvergüenza, la que se ve reflejada en estas hilarantes metamorfosis. Al mismo tiempo, esta obra es también una originalísima novela de amor. El objeto del deseo es la puntillosa y bellísima Ljuba, la cerda, la perra, la gacela... Lo que hay entre Viskovitz y ella es una pasión show more animal, que existe desde el principio de los tiempos y que no tendrá fin. show less