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Author | : Serenella Iovino |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2021-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 100907699X |
Download Italo Calvino's Animals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The words 'Anthropocene animals' conjure pictures of dead albatrosses' bodies filled with plastic fragments, polar bears adrift on melting ice sheets, solitary elephants in the savannah. Suspended between the impersonal nature of the Great Extinction and the singularity of exotic individuals, these creatures appear remote, disconnected from us. But animals in the Anthropocene are not simply 'out there.' Threatening and threatened, they populate cities and countryside, often trapped in industrial farms, zoos, labs. Among them, there are humans, too. Italo Calvino's Animals explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino's stories, ants, cats, chickens, rabbits, gorillas, and other critters emerge as complex subjects and inhabitants of a world under siege. Beside them, another figure appears in the mirror: that of an anthropos without a capital A, epitome of subaltern humans with their challenges and inequalities, a companion species on the difficult path of co-evolution.
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 | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 1986-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547542380 |
Download Mr. Palomar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities. In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination.” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world sublime and ridiculous. Like the telescope for which he is named, Mr. Palomar is a natural observer. “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things,” he believes, “that you can venture to seek what is underneath.” Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, or a topless sunbather, he tends to let his meditations stray from the present moment to the great beyond. And though he may fail as an objective spectator, he is the best of company. “Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku,” wrote Time Out. A play on a world fragmented by our individual perceptions, this inventive and irresistible novel encapsulates the life’s work of an artist of the highest order, “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian).
Author | : Martin McLaughlin |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474470904 |
Download Italo Calvino Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This first study in English of the complete writings of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino's main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analyses Calvino's intertextual links with major writers of world literature (Conrad, Stevenson, Hemingway and Borges). Postmodern elements in his texts are assessed, and a chapter on Calvino's critical essays shed important light on his creative process.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544146700 |
Download Last Comes the Raven Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Calvino . . . managed effortlessly what no author in English could quite claim: his novels and stories and fables were both classically modernist and giddily postmodern, embracing both experiment and tradition, at once conceptual and humane, intimate and mythic.” — Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection take place in a World War II–era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities. A trio of gluttonous burglars invades a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In the title story, a compact masterpiece of shifting perspectives, a panicked soldier tries to keep his wits—and his life—when he faces off against a young partisan with a loaded rifle and miraculous aim. Select stories from Last Comes the Raven have been published in translation, but the collection as a whole has never appeared in English. This volume, including several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein, is an important addition to Calvino's legacy.
Author | : Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2023-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1628954833 |
Download Animals and Race Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing anti-racism in its observation of the animal–race intersection. Too often, as Bénédicte Boisseron has indicated, this intersection typically appears in the form of animal activists instrumentalizing racial discrimination as a vehicle to approach animal rights. But why does this intersection exist, and, perhaps more importantly, how can we challenge it moving forward? This volume examines those two critical questions, taking an interdisciplinary approach in moving across subjects including art history, film studies, American history, and digital media analysis. Our interpretation of animals has, for centuries, been fundamental in the development of Western race thinking. This collection of essays looks at how this perspective contributes to the construction of racial discrimination, prioritizing ways to read the animal in our culture as a means for working to dismantle this conception.
Author | : Diana Secker Tesdell |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781841596105 |
Download Cat Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of stories inspired by cats and their relationships with humans.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 64 |
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 | : Gaoheng Zhang |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1527544621 |
Download Exchanges and Parallels between Italy and East Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays is the first English-language study to present the latest research on Italy’s cultural relationships with China and Japan across the centuries. It explores topics ranging from travel writing to creative arts, from translation to religious accommodation, and from Cold War politics to Chinese American cuisine. The volume draws on the expertise of an interdisciplinary group of scholars trained and working in Europe, East Asia, and North America who re-assess research foci and frames, showcase transcultural and theoretically-informed research, and help to strengthen this field of study.
Author | : Tommaso Landolfi |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811200806 |
Download Gogol's Wife & Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Much admired in Europe, Landolfi has been called "the Italian Kafka"; he is often linked with the Surrealists, and in the intellectual quality of his fantasy there are certain affinities with Borges; but beyond these superficial comparisons, his is a truly unique--and fascinating--art. It is based in a prodigious imagination, a very curious sense of humor and a rare command of irony.