Italo Calvino

Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno is een roman van de Italiaanse schrijver Italo Calvino uit 1947. Het was een van de eerste Italiaanse neorealistische romans en een erkenning van de oorlogsperiode en de wereld van de Italiaanse partizanen. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno is het eerste boek van Calvino, voor het eerst …

Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The lectures were originally written in Italian and translated by Patrick Creagh. The lectures were to be given …

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.

Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città is een verhalenbundel van de Italiaanse schrijver Italo Calvino uit 1963. Het boek bevat twintig korte verhalen. Ze zijn ingedeeld naar de seizoenen. Lente, zomer, herfst en winter volgen elkaar vijf keer op. Calvino schreef de verhalen tussen 1952 en 1963: tien in de jaren ’50 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …