Jos talviyönä matkamies on Italo Calvinon romaani, joka julkaistiin vuonna 1979. Kirja kertoo Lukijasta, joka yrittää lukea kirjaa nimeltä Jos talviyönä matkamies. Kirjaa pidetään postmodernin kokeellisen kirjallisuuden klassikkona. Kirjassa "lukijan" käsiinsä saamat teokset ovat satiireja salapoliisikertomuksista …
Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant” (Gore Vidal). Translated by William …
Paroni puussa on Italo Calvinon satiirinen romaani vuodelta 1957. Suomeksi teos julkaistiin Pentti Saarikosken suomentamana 1960. Sen kustansi Tammi. Teos kertoo aatelispojasta, Cosimosta, joka perheeseensä suuttuneena päättää muuttaa asumaan puuhun ja olla koskaan enää astumatta maan kamaralle. Teoksen suomentajan …
Koko kosmokomiikka on Italo Calvinon novellien kokoelma, joka ilmestyi postuumisti 1997. Teos on täydennetty laitos teoksesta Kosmokomiikkaa.
The Castle of Crossed Destinies is a 1973 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. Its narrative details a meeting among travelers who are inexplicably unable to speak after traveling through a forest. The characters in the novel recount their tales via Tarot cards, which are reconstructed by the narrator. The novel …
Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman’s breasts, or a gorilla’s behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented by the burden of individual …
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen …
Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to folk literature.