Look Hamlet. Este artículo no está disponible.Look Hamlet

A hilarious, darklycomic graphic retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet in radically condensedprose by legendary Swedish children's author Barbro Lindgren and illustratorAnna Höglund.


LookHamlet.


Hamlet nothappy.


Hamlet's mommydumb.


Hamlet's daddy dead.





So begins this wonderfullystrange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare's greatesttragedy boiled down to its smallest possible size: 100 words, give or take, andfifteen etchings that look like the lovechild of Beatrix Potter and EdwardGorey.





In our despondent antihero,a lop-eared bunny Hamlet with handbag in tow, is somehow embodied all thetremendous pathos of Shakespeare's Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedishchildren's author Barbro Lindgren's pithy prose resides the poetry of theoriginal, reworked for the era of memes and short attentionspans.





Bold and brilliant,irreverent and humane, Look Hamlet is the perfect irreverent gift forShakespeare readers of all ages. As the Bard himself wrote: “brevity isthe soul of wit.”

Barbro Lindgren, born in 1937, is a Swedish author of innovative and multifaceted works for children of all ages. The winner of the world’s largest children’s literature prize, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), her body of work includes picture books, poetry, plays, and books for young adults. Since her debut as an author in 1965, she has published over a hundred titles, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Starting out as a poor painter, artist Anna Höglund believed making picture books would put more solid food on the table for her family. It didn’t really. But she discovered the possibilities of the medium, which today she still considers the ultimate: the crossbreeding of text and picture suits her perfectly. She has been doing this since 1982, when she was twenty-four. Rachel Willson-Broyles is a freelance translator based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received her BA from Gustavus Adolphus College and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her other translations include Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s novels Montecore and Everything I Don’t Remember and plays INVASION! and I Call My Brothers, Malin Persson Giolito’s novel Quicksand, and Jonas Jonasson’s novels The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden and The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old-Man.