Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002261058
Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
Cosmicomics
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The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544231931
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino Pdf
The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a “cosmic know-it-all” with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Relating complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world, they are an indelible and delightful literary achievement. Originally published in Italian in three separate volumes—including the Asti d’Appello Prize-winning first volume, Cosmicomics—these thirty-four dazzling stories are collected here in one definitive English-language anthology. “Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I—or anyone, really—can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” —Colin Dwyer, NPR
The Distance of the Moon
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241339114
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino Pdf
'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Mr. Palomar
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HMH
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547542386
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino Pdf
A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities. In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination.” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world sublime and ridiculous. Like the telescope for which he is named, Mr. Palomar is a natural observer. “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things,” he believes, “that you can venture to seek what is underneath.” Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, or a topless sunbather, he tends to let his meditations stray from the present moment to the great beyond. And though he may fail as an objective spectator, he is the best of company. “Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku,” wrote Time Out. A play on a world fragmented by our individual perceptions, this inventive and irresistible novel encapsulates the life’s work of an artist of the highest order, “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian).
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Italo Calvino
Franco Ricci
Author : Franco Ricci
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291651
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Italo Calvino by Franco Ricci Pdf
Given the range of his writing, teaching Calvino can seem a daunting task. This volume aims to help instructors develop creative and engaging classroom strategies. Part 1, "Materials," presents an overview of Calvino's writings, nearly all of which are available in English translation, as well as critical works and online resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," focus on general themes and cultural contexts, address theoretical issues, and provide practical classroom applications. Contributors describe strategies for teaching Calvino that are as varied as his writings, whether having students study narrative theory through If on a winter's night a traveler, explore literary genre with Cosmicomics, improve their writing using Six Memos for the Next Millennium, or read Mr. Palomar in a general education humanities course.
The Watcher and Other Stories
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544279575
The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino Pdf
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
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love
Viktor Shklovsky
Author : Viktor Shklovsky
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628975215
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love by Viktor Shklovsky Pdf
While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here cover everything from observations about contemporary German and Russian life to theories of art and literature, nonetheless every one of them is indirectly dedicated to the one topic they are all required to avoid: their author's own unrequited love.
Hermit in Paris
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544146693
Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino Pdf
A posthumously published collection of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings recounting his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, paying homage to his influences, tracing the evolution of his literary style, and commenting wryly on his travels in the United States.
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544133204
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Pdf
Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “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.” 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 soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
Our Ancestors
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446419670
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino Pdf
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master storyteller. 'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times
Understanding Italo Calvino
Beno Weiss
Author : Beno Weiss
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0872498581
Understanding Italo Calvino by Beno Weiss Pdf
Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.
Visions and Re-visions
Robert M. Philmus
Author : Robert M. Philmus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0853238995
Visions and Re-visions by Robert M. Philmus Pdf
The former editor of Science Fiction Studies, Robert M. Philmus now casts his expert eye on a diverse range of short stories and novels by the premier creators of science fiction, including George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, and Ursula LeGuin. With essays on such masters of the genre as Stanislaw Lem, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, the volume provides an in-depth textual examination of science fiction as a truly "revisionary" genre. Visions and Revisions will be of immense value to scholars of literature and science fiction studies.
Why Read the Classics?
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544146372
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino Pdf
A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
Into the War
Italo Calvino
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544146389
Into the War by Italo Calvino Pdf
"These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino's memories of his own adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight in Mussolini's army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian youth brigades. The callow narrator of these tales observes the mounting unease of a city girding itself for war, the looting of an occupied French town, and nighttime revels during a blackout. Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War is one of Calvino's only works of autobiographical fiction. It offers both a glimpse of this writer's extraordinary life and a distilled dram of his wry, ingenious literary voice."--from cover, page [4].
Deathbird Stories
Harlan Ellison
Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497604773
Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison Pdf
Masterpieces of myth and terror about modern gods from technology to drugs to materialism—“fantasy at its most bizarre and unsettling” (The New York Times). As Earth approaches Armageddon, a man embarks on a quest to confront God in the Hugo Award–winning novelette, “The Deathbird.” In New York City, a brutal act of violence summons a malevolent spirit and a growing congregation of desensitized worshippers in “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,” an Edgar Award winner influenced by the real-life murder of Queens resident Kitty Genovese in 1964. In “Paingod,” the deity tasked with inflicting pain and suffering on every living being in the universe questions the purpose of its cruel existence. Deathbird Stories collects these and sixteen more provocative tales exploring the futility of faith in a faithless world. A legendary author of speculative fiction whose best-known works include A Boy and His Dog and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—and whose major awards and nominations number in the dozens, Harlan Ellison strips away convention and hypocrisy and lays bare the human condition in modern society as ancient gods fade and new deities rise to appease the masses—gods of technology, drugs, gambling, materialism—that are as insubstantial as the beliefs of those who venerate them. In addition to his Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Edgar, and other awards, Ellison was called “one of the great living American short story writers” by the Washington Post—and this collection makes it clear why he has earned such an extraordinary assortment of accolades. Stories include: “Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars” “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” “Along the Scenic Route” “On the Downhill Side” “O Ye of Little Faith” “Neon” “Basilisk” “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes” “Corpse” “Shattered Like a Glass Goblin” “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer” “The Face of Helene Bournouw” “Bleeding Stones” “At the Mouse Circus” “The Place with No Name” “Paingod” “Ernest and the Machine God” “Rock God” “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W” “The Deathbird”
