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Author | : Kathryn Hume |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Throughout the novels and stories. The cosmicomical tales, with their focus on science, are seen as crucial to the development of the symbolic mindscapes that made Calvino a major international writer. He died before arriving at any satisfactory solution to the problems of relating the 'I' to the 'not-I', but Hume derives from his later works a philosophy based on the creation of likenesses, of internal microcosms that permit us to mirror the macrocosm. These interior.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544231937 |
Download The Complete Cosmicomics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a “cosmic know-it-all” with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Relating complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world, they are an indelible and delightful literary achievement. Originally published in Italian in three separate volumes—including the Asti d’Appello Prize-winning first volume, Cosmicomics—these thirty-four dazzling stories are collected here in one definitive English-language anthology. “Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I—or anyone, really—can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” —Colin Dwyer, NPR
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156927949 |
Download Under the Jaguar Sun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 054413320X |
Download Invisible Cities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544133404 |
Download If On A Winter's Night A Traveler Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives. "Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses." —New York Times Review of Books
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0241339111 |
Download The Distance of the Moon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2014-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0544146379 |
Download Why Read the Classics? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0544146697 |
Download Hermit in Paris Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A posthumously published collection of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings recounting his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, paying homage to his influences, tracing the evolution of his literary style, and commenting wryly on his travels in the United States.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156226004 |
Download Cosmicomics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. “Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?” Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156154550 |
Download The Castle of Crossed Destinies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their tales. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness."--Goodreads