Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, in cui l'assurdo può essere vero

Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie è un'opera letteraria pubblicata per la prima volta il 4 luglio 1865 scritta dal matematico e scrittore inglese reverendo Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, sotto il ben più noto pseudonimo di Lewis Carroll.

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of the English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

He was born on 27 January 1832, son of a clergyman and firstborn of 11 children, Carroll began at an early age to entertain himself and his family with magic tricks, marionette shows, and poems written for homemade newspapers.

From 1846 to 1850 he attended Rugby School; he graduated from Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1854.

Carroll remained there, lecturing on mathematics and writing treatises and guides for students.

Although he took deacon's orders in 1861, Carroll was never ordained a priest, because he was afflicted with a stammer that made preaching difficult and partly, perhaps, because he had discovered other interests.

Carroll is especially known for “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking Glass” (1872), children's books that are also distinguished as satire and as examples of verbal wit.

Among Carroll's avocations was photography, at which he became proficient.

He excelled especially at photographing children.

Alice Liddell, one of the three daughters of Henry George Liddell, the dean of Christ Church, was one of his photographic subjects and the model for the fictional Alice.

Carroll's comic and children's works also include “The Hunting of the Snark” (1876), two collections of humorous verse, and the two parts of “Sylvie and Bruno” (1889, 1893).

As a logician, he was more interested in logic as a game than as an instrument for testing reason.

He died on 14 January 1898.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

One summer afternoon, Alice, a little girl. In Victorian England, starts to drift off to sleep while sitting under a tree with her sister.

She notices a White Rabbit looking at his watch and talking to himself.

She follows the Rabbit down a very deep rabbit hole and ends up far beneath the ground in a hall with a tiny locked door that leads to a beautiful garden.

She eats and drinks things that make her change in size, but she is still unable to get through the door into the garden.

When she becomes huge, she cries in frustration and after she becomes small and swims around in a pool made of her own tears; Alice manages to get out of the pool and dries off; then she comes across a Caterpillar smoking, he irritates Alice and asks her to recite poetry, which she cannot do properly.

Alice comes to a house in the woods, where a Duchess, her ugly baby, her hostile Cook, and her Cheshire Cat reside.