Between works like The Little Prince of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and The Neverending Story of Michael Ende, would locate the great adventure of Alice in Wonderland. Very appropriate readings for children and not so young. Works brimming with fantasy and of incalculable human value.
In the mixture of the fabulous as a moral and the shamelessly fantastic of all these works lies a trace of empathy, a search for good and evil, a soft moral about the acts, the consequences, the good and the bad of the world and everything. that they may have to deal with when they are older. Of course with the fundamental sifting of fantasy.
Lewis Carroll It is the author, Alicia, his great character, the wonderland, the opportune setting for the story to unfold with its touch of a transcendental fable in its background simplicity and in the complexity marked by the exuberance of his imagination.
Passionate about mathematics and with a suspiciously bleak childhood, Carroll would see Alice's world as a kind of escape. Some say that everything was born from some improvised stories to the daughter of a friend. Welcome that casual imprint with which I would undoubtedly deceive the little ones and finally, on paper, the little ones from all over the world.
3 Recommended Books By Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland
Many have been those who have tried to write that children's story that will conquer the hearts of the little ones. As an author of children's fiction once told me, actually writing for children is much more difficult than we think.
They detect the flaw, the emptiness of a story, even better than adults. Basically it is so because they have no filters, nor do they succumb to recommendations and expectations. A story reaches children or it doesn't. No more. Therefore, we must rely on a natural ability to approach children's themes, a kind of connection between the author and the children's universe.
Summary: Written in 1865, Alice in Wonderland is a classic not only of youth literature, but of literature in general. Popularized by the dozens of versions of him that have been carried out, the story that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, the real name of Lewis Carrol, wrote for the ten-year-old girl Alicia Liddell, is a delightful network of plausible and absurd situations, Unusual metamorphoses of beings and environments, games with language and logic and dream associations that make it an unforgettable book that would have a sequel comparable, if not superior, in "Alice Through the Looking Glass."
Alice through the mirror
Characters and symbols, or how to ensure that the same work can have more than one reading depending on the age of the reader. Chess may be one of those symbols between the mathematical and the vital as a destiny to be traced… And yet in the end this book is also a childish echo of its first part.
Summary: Alice Through the Looking Glass is conceived as a game of chess, where streams and hedges divide the squares and Alice is a pawn who aspires to be queen; a chess game where nothing makes sense and nothing is what it seems. In the mirror world reality is distorted, or perhaps it is just another way of seeing it.
Lewis Carroll, after the resounding success of Alice in Wonderland (1865), wrote Alice Through the Looking Glass six years later, which soon gained worldwide recognition. Together they have become an essential work in the history of literature.
The game of logic
It seems inconceivable that this book was born from the same pen as the previous ones. But it is really that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the real person behind the renowned pseudonym, lived with mathematical and logical concerns that haunted him throughout his life.
The logic of thought is like a fundamental mathematics, like a search for the scientific of thought, if there is one ...
Summary: For the translator and prologue Alfredo Deaño, the field of logic was the crossroads chosen by Carroll to carry out the contradictory task of combining the science of meaning and the flow of nonsense, in the Victorian era.
The neurosis of conformist Victorianism transferred to mental constructions shows how the rigor of inference can lead to madness.
