"The death of the Pythia," by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , is a little book so much fun.
For those who have read or at least know the myth of Oedipus the King, the 60 short pages that make up the work will be a freak of cuncentrato he will be able to give a little smile.
I offer an excerpt from the first line of the story:
'anger at the stupidity of his own oracles and the naive credulity of the Greeks, the priestess of Delphi Pannychis XI, long and dry as almost all Pizie that preceded it, listened to the questions of the young Oedipus, another that wanted to know if his parents were really his parents, as if it were easy to establish such a thing in aristocratic circles, where, without jokes, gave married women to understand their wives, who also ended up believing, like Zeus in qualmente person had been lying to them. It is true that in such cases, it is doubtful, however, those who came to consult the Pythia used to answer with a simple yes and no, it depends ..., that day but the whole idiotic thing she seemed to truly intolerable, perhaps only because when the pale young man came to the shrine were now limped after five, instead of listening to him Pannychis should have closed, and then want to cure him of unconditional faith in the judgments of the oracles , either because it is such a bad mood jumped on the whim of angering the prince of Corinth haughty air, the Pythia's prophecy that he made a most senseless and could not be fetched, which, he thought, there would certainly never come true, because nobody in the world can kill his own father and sleep with his mother, not to mention that to her all those stories of incestuous matings between gods and demigods were nothing more than silly legends. "
Highly recommended to those who, OCME I said above, has read or knows the myth of Oedipus: D
Among other , abundant in a couple of hours it runs out, you might even go by Feltrinelli and read there, without spending any XD (but only if you want to make people mischievously!)
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