伊塔罗·卡尔维诺

《如果在冬夜，一个旅人》是伊塔罗·卡尔维诺于1979年出版的作品，并于1981年出版英译本。这是一部关于写作与阅读的小说，一个关于文本的文本，多数的评论者与学者将这本小说归类为后现代主义的后设文本。

《看不見的城市》是伊塔羅·卡爾維諾的文學作品之代表，一直都受到各地的讚揚。同類的小說包括：《命運交叉的城堡》和《如果在冬夜，一個旅人》。

Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. The story of Cosimo, an 18th century Italian nobleman who makes his home in the …

Cosmicomics is a book of short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. Each story takes a scientific "fact", and builds an imaginative story around it. An always extant being called Qfwfq narrates all of the stories save two, each of which is a memory of an event in the …

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.

《给下一轮太平盛世的备忘录》是卡尔维诺去美国的演讲集，原文以意大利文写成，翻译成英文，从英文书名中可得知：此书本来预定有六讲，但还没有踏足该地就死于脑出血，第六讲“一致性”尚未完成。其儿子就收集了卡尔维诺的前五篇演讲稿，成了一本给下一轮太平盛世的备忘录，主要是讲作者对文学的研究和期望。 …