The Distance of the Moon, Calvino, Italo

Автор: Calvino, Italo
Название: If on a winter`s night a traveller VC
ISBN: 0099430894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099430896
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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: Calvino Italo
Название: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
ISBN: 0241275954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241275955
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Описание: 'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinished at his death, were the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, which he was due to deliver at Harvard in 1985-86.

These surviving drafts explore the literary concepts closest to his heart: Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth), in serious yet playful essays that reveal his debt to the comic strip and the folktale. This collection, now in a fluent and supple new translation, is a brilliant precis of a great writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium he addressed. Translated by Geoffrey Brock 'The book I give most to people is Six Memos for the Next Millennium' Ali Smith'Wonderful .

. . full of wit and erudition' Daily Telegraph

Автор: Calvino, Italo
Название: Our Ancestors
ISBN: 009943086X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099430865
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Описание: Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; 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.

Автор: Calvino Italo
Название: The Cloven Viscount
ISBN: 0544960068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544960060
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In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures

In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears. When the two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, there's no telling the lengths each will go to win.Now available in an independent volume for the first time, this deliciously bizarre novella is Calvino at his most devious and winning.

Автор: Calvino, Italo
Название: If on a winter`s night a traveller
ISBN: 1857151380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857151381
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Описание: Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader`s desire to finish the story and the lover`s desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER`S NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book - IF ON A WINTER`S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated.

Автор: Calvino Italo
Название: The Nonexistent Knight
ISBN: 0544959108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544959101
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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: Calvino Italo
Название: Difficult Loves
ISBN: 0544959124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544959125
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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).

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: Calvino Italo
Название: Vintage Christmas If On A Winters Night
ISBN: 1784870617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784870614
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Автор: Italo Calvino
Название: Numbers in the Dark
ISBN: 0141189746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189741
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Описание: A collection of short stories covering the length of the author`s writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. It includes fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; and a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts.