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Visibility :: Calvino's Perpective
“We are bombarded today by such a quantity of images that we can no longer distinguish direct experience from what we have seen for a few seconds on television. The memory is littered with bits … more →
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McGonegle: Blog 2
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kmcgonegle wrote 2 weeks ago: Just kind of a final note on If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler… There was definitely a lot of commen … more →
Chapter Titles
eczarnowski wrote 3 weeks ago: If on a winter’s night a traveler Outside the town of Malbork Leaning from the steep slope Wit … more →
Discussion Question- What does a Book Say About You?
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lfandel wrote 3 weeks ago: Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Travler pays more attention to the reader and h … more →
Reading and Writing in Calvino
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jessicabarr wrote 3 weeks ago: On a more serious note, there are some passages–in addition to what Ben points out in his ques … more →
Discussion Questions from "If on a winter's night a traveler"
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bredshaw wrote 3 weeks ago: 1. On 92 Ludmilla says “The novel I would most like to read at this moment, … should hav … more →
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
eczarnowski wrote 4 weeks ago: While doing my reading I found that I was very confused with a part at the beginning. I don’t … more →
Recalcitrant Technology
resilientwillow wrote 1 month ago: Trying to make sense out of the myriad of directions surrounding these blog sites is cutting into my … more →
The Flash
Neha wrote 2 months ago: It happened one day, at a crossroads, in the middle of a crowd, people coming and going. I stopped, … more →
Invisible Cities
Neha wrote 2 months ago: … The Great Khan’s atlas contains also the maps of the promised lands visited in thought … more →
The Adventure of a Photographer
Neha wrote 2 months ago: In Calvino’s clever writing: “…Because once you’ve begun,” he [Antonino] would pre … more →
The Black Sheep
Neha wrote 2 months ago: There was a country where they were all thieves. At night everybody would leave home with skeleton k … more →
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand...
sixsuperfluousdimensions wrote 2 months ago: …the traveler’s past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate p … more →
"Glimpsed from the corner of the eye in passing"
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adairjones wrote 2 months ago: “a voluntary dream” “The anecdote, the fond reminiscence, the protracted joke, the point … more →
Cosmicomics
jformato wrote 3 months ago: A collection of short stories by Italo Calvino explores ideas in astronomy from the point of view of … more →
Cities and Memory
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Em wrote 3 months ago: The anxeity of new places is overwhelming. The thought of ‘where do I go,’ ‘what s … more →
Unidentified Narrative Objects: Calvino’s La nuvola di smog
Zio Bastone wrote 4 months ago: I UNOs appear in Wu Ming I’s identification of the New Italian Epic. A UNO is part of the ‘aberrant … more →
Sons of Mahfouz
Youssef Rakha wrote 4 months ago: Youssef Rakha quizzes out novelist Ibrahim Farghali on his greatest masterpiece to date Finally, a t … more →
Calvino
mpr2020 wrote 4 months ago: Writers like me, who are not attracted to psychology, to the analysis of feelings, or to introspecti … more →
New CD From Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings Coming September 15th
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improvisedcommunications wrote 5 months ago: Photo by Scott Friedlander On September 15th, Firehouse 12 Records will release Madeleine Dreams (FH … more →
