The Cloven Viscount, Calvino Italo

Автор: Calvino, Italo
Название: If on a winter`s night a traveller VC
ISBN: 0099430894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099430896
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter`s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest.

Автор: Calvino, Italo
Название: Invisible cities
ISBN: 0099429837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099429838
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Italo Calvino
Название: Why Read the Classics?
ISBN: 0141189703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189703
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Описание: Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author`s criticism.

Автор: Italo Calvino
Название: The Complete Cosmicomics
ISBN: 0141189681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189680
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Описание: Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.

Автор: Calvino Italo
Название: Mr Palomar
ISBN: 0099430878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099430872
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Описание: Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar`s observations render the world afresh.

Автор: Calvino Italo
Название: The Nonexistent Knight
ISBN: 0544959108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544959101
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem--now available in an independent volume for the first time--that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood.

Set in the time of Charlemagne and narrated by a nun with her own secrets to keep, The Nonexistent Knight tells the story of Agilulf, a gleaming white suit of armor with nothing inside it. A challenge to his honor sends Agilulf on a search through France, England, and North Africa to confirm the chastity of a virgin he saved from rape years earlier. In the end, after many surprising turns of plot, a closing confession draws this sparkling novella to a perfect finish.

Автор: Italo Calvino
Название: The Queen`s Necklace
ISBN: 0141195835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141195834
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Contains such stories as "The Queen`s Necklace" and "The Workshop Hen".

Автор: Calvino Italo
Название: Why Read the Classics?
ISBN: 0544146379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544146372
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 11140.00 T
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Описание: "All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics." --from Why Read the Classics?

Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in essays of warmth, humor, and striking insight. He ranges from Homer to Jorge Luis Borges, from the Persian folklorist Nezami to Charles Dickens. Whether tracing the links between Ovid's Metamorphoses and Alain Robbe-Grillet's objectivity, discovering the origins of science fiction in the writings of Cyrano de Bergerac, or convincing us that the Italian novelist Carlo Emilio Gadda's works are like artichokes, Calvino offers a new perspective on beloved favorites and introduces us to hidden gems.

"This book serves as a welcome reminder that the great works are great because they can mean so much to readers, and Calvino is a most knowledgeable guide to all the best destinations." --San Francisco Chronicle

Автор: Calvino, Italo
Название: Adam, One Afternoon
ISBN: 009928703X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099287032
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Описание: This collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare `if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better`.

Автор: Calvino, Italo
Название: Marcovaldo
ISBN: 0099428547 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099428541
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Описание: Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider.

Автор: Italo Calvino
Название: Hermit in Paris
ISBN: 0141189754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189758
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Описание: Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer`s life shed no light on the creative work. This volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we may ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers.

Автор: Calvino Italo
Название: Difficult Loves
ISBN: 0544959124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544959125
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 11140.00 T
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A “wondrous work from the early career of one of the world's greatest writers” (Kirkus Reviews), masterfully translated from Italian into English by Ann Goldstein Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in one definitive collection as the author intended them. In Difficult Loves, Italy's master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love--including self-love--are swept away in magical instants of recognition. 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. Each of them discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. This edition also include two stories translated into English for the first time, translated by Ann Goldstein (The Neopolitan Quartet, Elena Ferrante).