From one of modern literature s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Here are his reminiscences of Italy s antifascist resistance and the frenzy of politics and ideas of the postwar era. The longest and most delightfully revealing section of the book is Calvino s diary of his travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960, which show him marveling...
From one of modern literature s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographic...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character. Based on a witty analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book--IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, by Italo Calvino, of...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love sto...
A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in Paris in 1960, the Oulipo views imaginative writing as an exercise dominated by the method of "constraints." While a major contribution to literary theory, and also great fun, Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature is perhaps most distinguished as an indispensable guide to writers.
A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among...
Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice."
Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describ...
"Italian Environmental Literature" brings together, for the first time - in Italy or for an English-speaking audience - a collection of over 40 authors from the deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing. Poetry and prose, the essay, the political and economic tract, and the new visual arts are all represented in this collection. "Environmental thought and writing in America have long profited from their dialogue with Italy's literature of the earth. From a certain perspective, the modern environmental movement might even be said to have begun in Italy. It was in this ancient...
"Italian Environmental Literature" brings together, for the first time - in Italy or for an English-speaking audience - a collection of over 40 author...
Palomar, Calvinos letztes und zugleich reifstes Werk, ist ein Roman in Episoden, mit kleinen Alltagsbetrachtungen, die auch als einzelne Erzählungen gelesen werden können. Den Protagonisten, Herrn Palomar, stattet Calvino mit vielen Details aus, die sich mit seiner eigenen Biographie decken: beide sind schon etwas älter, haben Frau und Tochter und können zu Hause arbeiten; sie haben eine Wohnung in Rom, verbringen den Sommer aber in einem Haus mit Garten; zeitweise leben sie in Paris, wo sie einkaufen oder den Jardin des Plantes besuchen; beide interessieren sich für Astronomie und...
Palomar, Calvinos letztes und zugleich reifstes Werk, ist ein Roman in Episoden, mit kleinen Alltagsbetrachtungen, die auch als einzelne Erzählungen ...
Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernandez, a writer like no other, as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: like no European or Latin American. He is an irregular, who eludes all classifications and labellings yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books. Piano Stories contains classic tales such as The Daisy Dolls, The Usher, and The Flooded House. "
Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernandez, a writer like no other, as Italo Calvino d...
This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. But he was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Leonardo Sciascia, Natalia Ginzburg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luciano...
This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important p...
All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics. from Why Read the Classics?
Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in essays of warmth, humor, and striking insight. He ranges from Homer to Jorge Luis Borges, from the Persian folklorist Nezami to Charles Dickens. Whether tracing the links...
All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics. from Why Read the Classics?
"Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." -- from Numbers in the Dark
Written between 1943 and 1984, the stories in Numbers in the Dark span the career of one of fiction's modern masters: from Italo Calvino's earliest fables, to tales informed by life in World War II-era Italy, to the delightful experimentation that would define his later work. Here are speculative stories on life in the digital age, genre-bending wonders, and "impossible...
"Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of e...
