Work

The Silent Gondoliers

William Goldman · 1983novel

Genre
- fantasy
Theme
- music
- art and artists
Place
- europe
Time
- timeless or unspecified
Tone
- whimsical
Audience
- adult
Form
- frame story

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Genremythic fantasy

The Silent Gondoliers is a 1983 novel by William Goldman, written under the pseudonym of "S. Morgenstern". The novel purports to explain why the gondoliers of Venice no longer sing, through the story of the protagonist Luigi. Chapters I and II build up further mythology behind the name Morgenstern and the backstory of Gondolierian history, and the tale of Luigi actually starts in Chapter III.

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