Gaber diceva che la libertà non è star sopra un albero, non è neanche il volo di un moscone, non è uno spazio libero, la libertà è partecipazione.Lo sostengo pienamente.Ma è anche vero che neanche Cosimo sapeva a che ideale stava dietro nel suo perseguire un proposito che più si va avanti con la ...
Most traditional stories were past down from generation to generation in an oral tradition which made for well paced and entertaining stories. Sadly they are often retold in the hands of someone with a pace that is comparable to a three legged horse in a race, and sadly not as entertaining. (I kn...
Cinta. Satu kata yang sangat luas maknanya. Cinta dapat dideskripsikan dengan berbagai bentuk atau cara. Ketika membicarakan cinta, kita tidak melulu terpaku pada logika, tetapi perasaan, naluri, dan hasrat juga berperan di dalamnya dan membentuk "sistem" interaksi sosial antara manusia yang satu...
Let's start with the fact that Italo Calvino is one of my favorite writers of all time. His crystalline surrealism, easy tone (at least in translation), and whimsical subjects (by which I mean situations and characters, inclusive) are, to me, compelling. To say that I went into this book with a f...
Calvino, Italo (1991). Perché leggere i classici. Milano: Mondadori. 2010. ISBN 9788852015915. Pagine 332. 2,99 €Ho letto questa raccolta postuma di saggi di Italo Calvino (o meglio, l’ho “riletta”, perché i classici si rileggono sempre, non si leggono mai una prima volta) perché Maria Popova ne ...
Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amu...
The thought of a time outside our experience is intolerable.Had I met someone like Mr. Palomar before reading this book, I’d have easily passed him off as just another middle aged man on the verge of senility with nothing better to do with his time or at the most a mad wannabe scientist who reali...
One of the most interesting parts of this collection of short stories, for me, is the chronological organization, which allows us to observe the development of Calvino as a short story writer from the earliest included stories (which start when he was about 20) to the ones written during his 50s ...
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...
El vizconde demediado es la primera incursion de Italo Calvino en lo fabuloso y lo fantastico. Cuenta Calvino la historia del vizconde de Terralba, quien fue partido en dos por un canonazo de los turcos y cuyas dos mitades continuaron viviendo por separado. Simbolo de la condicion humana dividida...
La voz del caballero Agilulfo llegaba metálica desde dentro del yelmo cerrado, como si no fuera una garganta sino la propia chapa de la armadura la que vibrase. Y es que, en efecto, la armadura estaba hueca,Agilulfo no existía. Sólo a costa de fuerza de voluntad, de convicción, había logrado forj...
Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our...
At his death, in 1985, only three stories had been completed: “Under the Jaguar Sun,” “A King Listens,” and “The Name, the Nose.” Had he lived, this book would certainly have evolved into something quite different. In the light of Calvino’s previous works and given what he said to me—“How shall I...
isbn 0-15-143689-4 For Daniele Ponchiroli translator's note In Chapter Eight the passage from Crime and Punishment is quoted in the beloved translation of Constance Garnett. W.W. Contents 3 1 10 If on a winter's night a traveler 25 2 3...
Net weight: two pounds.” In the thick, soft whiteness that fills the jars the clangor of the world is muffled: a dark shadow rises from the bottom and, as in the fog of memories, allows a glimpse of the goose’s severed limbs, lost in its fat. Mr Palomar is standing in line in a Paris charcuterie....
Maybe to write about Paris I ought to leave, to distance myself from it, if it is true that all writing starts out from a lack or an absence. Or else be more inside it, but for that I would need to have lived there from when I was young, if it is true that it is the first years of our existence, ...
To go from one place to another you have always the choice between land and boat: and since the shortest distance between two points in Esmeralda is not a straight line but a zigzag that ramifies in tortuous optional routes, the ways that open to each passer-by are never two, but many, and they i...
We’d be all right here, it seemed that day; the sky and green looked bright, too bright, perhaps, for the worries we had, my wife and I—how could we have guessed about the ants? Thinking it over, though, Uncle Augusto may have hinted at this once: “You should see the ants over there... they’re no...