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Hermit in Paris - Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino
Category: Biography Memoir
This volume of posthumously collected personal writings of Italo Calvino range from the early 1950s to his last interview, completed before his death in 1985. They examine major 20th-century events from a personal viewpoint, and provide a homage to his adoptive city, Paris.
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (Vintage Christmas) by Italo Calvino
Category: Classic
Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any book, but the latest Calvino, the book you are holding in your hands. Or is it? Are you the reader? Is this the book? Beware. All assu ...Show more
If on a Winter\'s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction
Traces the reading of a novel with the author and his reader as the main protagonists. In the course of this novel a whole shelf of novels are begun but never finished. The characters are the myriad of beings involved with the process of creation, construction and consumption of "The Book".
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character. Based on a witty analogy ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her p ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork.You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replac ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, "Into the War", we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction
This book deals both with a transition from adolescence into youth and with a move from peace to war: as for very many other people, for the protagonist of this book entry into life and entry into war coincide. from the Author s Note These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calv ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. from "Invisible Cities" In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo Mongol emperor and Vene ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: IV
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a ...Show more
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps.