Download or read book Las Ciudades Invisibles written by Italo Calvino and published by . This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.
Download or read book Las ciudades invisibles written by Italo Calvino and published by Siruela. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Las ciudades invisibles se presentan como una serie de relatos de viaje que Marco Polo hace a Kublai Kan, emperador de los tártaros… A este emperador melancólico, que ha comprendido que su ilimitado poder poco cuenta en un mundo que marcha hacia la ruina, un viajero imaginario le habla de ciudades imposibles; por ejemplo, una ciudad microscópica que va ensanchándose y termina formada por muchas ciudades concéntricas en expansión, una ciudad telaraña suspendida sobre un abismo, o una ciudad bidimensional como Moriana… Creo que lo que el libro evoca no es solo una idea atemporal de la ciudad, sino que desarrolla, de manera unas veces implícita y otras explícita, una discusión sobre la ciudad moderna… Creo haber escrito algo como un último poema de amor a las ciudades cuando es cada vez más difícil vivirlas como ciudades». Italo Calvino
Download or read book Las ciudades invisibles de Italo Calvino written by Pedro Cano and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Numbers in the Dark written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A posthumously published collection of short stories that span the breadth of Italo Calvino's career.
Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Download or read book Invisible Cities 50th Anniversary Edition written by Italo Calvino and published by Mariner Books Classics. This book was released on 2025-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated 50th Anniversary Edition - With an introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anthony Doerr A beautiful new illustrated hardcover in the Mariner Classics line: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels--a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed... 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. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: stories about memory and desire, art and creation, life and death. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor realizes these fantastic places are more familiar than they appear. With a brilliant new introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr, and dreamlike illustrations of the cities interspersed throughout, this edition breathes new life into Calvino's classic, a celebration of the story's profound invention and enduring insight.
Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Emile Harrak and published by Everbind. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times.
Download or read book Invisible Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Si una noche de invierno un viajero written by Italo Calvino and published by Siruela. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «La empresa de tratar de escribir novelas “apócrifas”, que me imagino escritas por un autor que no soy yo y que no existe, la llevé a sus últimas consecuencias en este libro. Es una novela sobre el placer de leer novelas; el protagonista es el lector, que empieza diez veces a leer un libro que por vicisitudes ajenas a su voluntad no consigue acabar. Tuve que escribir, pues, el inicio de diez novelas de autores imaginarios, todos en cierto modo distintos de mí y distintos entre sí: una novela toda sospechas y sensaciones confusas; una toda sensaciones corpóreas y sanguíneas; una introspectiva y simbólica; una revolucionaria existencial; una cínico-brutal; una de manías obsesivas; una lógica y geométrica; una erótico-perversa; una telúrico-primordial; una apocalíptica alegórica. Más que identificarme con el autor de cada una de las diez novelas, traté de identificarme con el lector...» Italo Calvino
Download or read book Last Comes The Raven written by Italo Calvino and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino’s important early short story collections Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection—one of Calvino’s earliest—take place in a World War II–era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storyteller’s later style. A trio of gluttonous burglars invade 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. Throughout, Calvino delights in discovering hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. 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.
Download or read book Marcovaldo Or The Seasons in the City written by Italo Calvino and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1983 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories about an Italian peasant's struggle to reconcile country habits with urban life. Oblivious to the garish attractions of the town, Marcovaldo is the attentive recorder of natural phenomena but, at every turn, the city is there to thwart his inclinations.
Download or read book The Watcher and Other Stories written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times). Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fiction writers and one of the twentieth century’s greatest fabulists. This collection of three stories showcases his range and virtuosity. In the title story, an Italian Communist poll watcher is stationed at a hospital in Turin, where nuns guide the hands of invalids to their preferred candidate in a special election. In “Smog,” a city’s cooperative laundry facility reveals a harbinger of social purification. And in “The Argentine Ant,” the citizens of a provincial seaside town struggle against a government-controlled infestation. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us.” —John Updike, New Yorker
Download or read book Collection of Sand written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “brilliant collection of essays” and travelogues by the celebrated author of Invisible Cities “may change the way you see the world around you” (The Guardian, UK). Italo Calvino’s boundless curiosity and ingenious imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, his last collection of new works published during his lifetime. Delving into the delights of the visual world—both in art and travel—the subjects of these 38 essays range from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens. In Calvino’s words, this collection is “a diary of travels, of course, but also of feelings, states of mind, moods…The fascination of a collection lies just as much in what it reveals as in what it conceals of the secret urge that led to its creation” (from Collection of Sand). Never before translated into English, Collection of Sand is an incisive and often surprising meditation on observation and knowledge, “beautifully translated by Martin McLaughlin” (The Guardian, UK).
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Download or read book Difficult Loves written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war “with enormous realist dignity” in this collection of “wondrous work from [his] early career” (Kirkus, starred review). In this short story collection, one of Italy’s greatest storytellers explores the interior lives of characters just as their most cherished illusions of love are suddenly swept away. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady’s bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach by the loss of her bikini bottom. Confronted with a jarring moment of recognition, each of these characters discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. This is the first edition in English to present these fifteen short stories together as Calvino originally envisioned them. It also includes two stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein.
Download or read book If on a Winter s Night a Traveler written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italo Calvino's classic, multifaceted novel about writing and readers.
