Blogs about: Italo Calvino

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Diana Patient wrote 3 hours ago: “Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” Polo said. “Perhaps I … more →

Tags: Photo, Dusk, Invisible Cities, Photo (2), photograph, Venice

Il cavaliere inesistente 2 comments

amandalorienbrasil wrote 21 hours ago: Io che racconto questa storia sono suor Teodora, religiosa dell’ordine di San Colombano. Scriv … more →

Tags: Bibliomania, In lingua italiana, Others' Mind, Caleidoscopio, Personagens, Letteratura

Almanac - May 20

Alchemy & Accident wrote 22 hours ago: 1799 – Honoré de Balzac born. French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of shor … more →

Tags: almanac, Literature, Books, Novels, Marcel Proust, France, Friedrich Engels, Playwright, Edgar Allan Poe

Drenka Willen Wins First Ottaway Award for Promotion of International Literature

Bookblurb wrote 1 day ago: Words without Borders, a nonprofit and online magazine, has announced that Drenka Willen is the firs … more →

Tags: Translations, Drenka Willen, Günter Grass, James H. Ottaway Jr. Award for the Promotion of Interna, José Saramago, Octavio Paz, Ottaway Award, Publisher's Weekly, Stanislaw Lem

If dinner could talk, could it tell the story of the moon? It can and did.1 comment

antdina wrote 2 days ago: Previously we shared how, Italo Calvino published a novel about many travelers who meet up in a cast … more →

Tags: The Taste Lab, Storytelling, Castle of Crossed Desitinies, cook, cooking, desert, Dinner, Dwarves, Fairytale

À lécole de liberté - le Colibri et le Lion

lauratestoni wrote 2 days ago: Italo Calvino – un des plus profonds écrivains italiens du XXème siècle – dans Les villes invisibles … more →

Tags: Essais, Philosophie, Umberto Eco, Hannah Arendt, bard college, Heidegger, Luigina Mortari, Justice, Simone Weil

book review: kafka's hat

librarianaut wrote 2 days ago: Kafka’s Hat is Patrice Martin’s story of a man who embarks on a quest to pick up the hat … more →

Tags: Books, Review, absurd, Bureaucracy, hat, Jorge Luis Borges, kafka, kafka's hat, montreal

My completed essay. References available upon request.

oliverimpey wrote 3 days ago: What is the relationship between the real and the imagined place in Italo Calvino’s Invisible … more →

Tags: Architecture, Bruce Chatwin, Calvino, chatwin, Critical Essay, criticism, English, English Literature, Essay

Beauty from imperfection

The Translator wrote 3 days ago: Much of my thinking and reading this week – and not just – has been directed towards issues of natio … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, Alasdair Maclean, Antonella Sorace, Chinua Achebe, Ciaran Carson, Edward Said, Joseph Conrad, matthew reynolds, Nelson Moe

Book Club 1: If on a winter's night a traveler

webadmin wrote 1 week ago: If on a winter’s night a traveler - Italo Calvino What does it say about a blog that chooses o … more →

Tags: Home, The Book Club, Novel, anti-novel

Quote of the Week 5/12-18/13

fast food blogger wrote 1 week ago: “Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. ” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cit … more →

Tags: Quote of the week, The Arts, Books, Quote, Quotes

If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino4 comments

Alex Thompson wrote 1 week ago: “You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that y … more →

Tags: book, Book Review, Cloud Atlas, cosmicomics, if on a winter's night a traveler, Review

Coming to Know a Little Square of Home

Scott Abbott wrote 1 week ago: Marco Polo imagined answering (or Kublai Khan imagined his answer) that the more one was lost in unf … more →

Tags: Invisible Cities, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Travel, Travis Low

Sections in the...

Hello!! Project wrote 1 week ago: Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven’t Read - Books You Needn’t Read - Books Made … more →

Tags: quotes about books, Books, Quote, Qoutes about Book, if on a winter's night a traveler

Literati Joins the Bookstore Comeback Movement

Laura K. Cowan wrote 1 week ago: The newly opened Literati Bookstore in book town USA Ann Arbor, Michigan. Today I went to check out … more →

Tags: media and publishing, Books 2, Alice Hoffman, ann arbor, bookstore, Joan Aiken, Kate Bernheimer, Literati, Literati Bookstore

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books When You Need Something Light & Fun

Reader's Services wrote 2 weeks ago: This week’s Top Ten on The Broke and the Bookish blog is “Top Ten Books When You Need So … more →

Tags: Books, Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum, Scott Pilgrim, Top Ten, Terry Prachett, Discworld, Chuck Klosterman, david sedaris

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books When You Need Something Light & Fun

Reader's Services wrote 2 weeks ago: This week’s Top Ten on The Broke and the Bookish blog is “Top Ten Books When You Need So … more →

Tags: Books, Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum, Scott Pilgrim, Top Ten, Terry Prachett, Discworld, Chuck Klosterman, david sedaris

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

heenali wrote 2 weeks ago: ‘I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the ar … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Invisible Cities, Spirited Away, technology, London, Education, Recreation, Religion and Spirituality, Primal Scream

Express who you are with wine. Seriously.4 comments

antdina wrote 2 weeks ago: In the 1969, Italian author Italo Calvino wrote the Castle of Crossed Destinies where weary traveler … more →

Tags: The Taste Lab, Storytelling, Wine, Pinot Noir, party, France, Italy, Castle of Crossed Destinies, beef tenderloin


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