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notimetoread wrote 2 days ago: Nature journal has published a review of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics. The book is a re-release … more →

Tags: Thoughts, Alan Lightman, anthology, sci lit, Short Stories, Vignettes

Cosmic shame2 comments

eleonoraonline wrote 4 days ago: I’m currently reading a popular science book called The never-ending days of being dead, by Ma … more →

Tags: Literature, marcus chown, Books, Science, Popular Science, Cosmology, writing, Physics, impossibility

In search of...the road in literature2 comments

adairjones wrote 6 days ago: The Road The ‘road’ in literature is a theme, a symbol, an organising principle.  It can be said … more →

Tags: musings, 'road' symbol, Adair Jones, ariosto, Canterbury Tales, Cervantes, Chaucer, Cormac Mccarthy, Dante

Invisible Cities

Moira Clunie wrote 2 weeks ago: , Originally uploaded by downtownbrown by Italo Calvino is general travel reading – it … more →

Tags: book, broadway, Cities, Exploring, Invisible Cities, Linguistics, New Amsterdam, Quotes, sense

Solo la notte ascolta se stessa2 comments

fabrizio centofanti wrote 3 weeks ago: da qui … more →

Tags: Youtubox, Un re in ascolto

Invisible Cities1 comment

mystrygirl87 wrote 3 weeks ago: I remember a book from my childhood where seven blind mice stumble across an elephant, but because e … more →

Tags: Reviews, 1001 books, translation, Guardian

Dead Branches4 comments

David Chaitt wrote 1 month ago: I lent my friend Jo my copy of Invisible Cities LAST MAY and finally got it back a week ago.  After … more →

Tags: Career Advice, Industry Commentary, Life, becoming an expert, book, Book quote, Career, dead braches, Future

Italo Calvino's Writings

brittbrouse wrote 1 month ago: Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings Author: Italo Calvino Notes: Just purchased today at Jose … more →

Tags: Autobiography-Memoir, Finished Reading

Tão simples e eu sem nunca o conseguir dizer ou escrever1 comment

Eduarda Sousa wrote 1 month ago: Há uns tempos escrevia eu no twitter que já sou lisboa. 9 meses por cá e ainda não consegui explora … more →

Tags: citação, desassossegos, Literatura, Brueghel, cidades invisiveis, Fernando Pessoa, Lisboa

Italo Calvino

urbesque wrote 1 month ago: posted by caroline picard I’ve been thinking of the second person narrative of late, and … more →

Tags: if on a winter's night a traveler, second person, John Turturro

Keeper of Things Remembered2 comments

Stephanie wrote 1 month ago: Always an interesting exercise, how I cringe and laugh and sober up all within a reading of an old j … more →

Tags: Miscellany, Borders, COLLECTIONS, colors, cursive, History, if on a winter's night a traveler, Journal, meditation

missed it the first time: Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler

joshspilker wrote 2 months ago: An occasional series to review books that are several years old and Deckfight has never read before … more →

Tags: Books, missed it the first time, Reviews, Literature

The ant bully, part 2

joanna wrote 2 months ago: Darwinian fitness. It's them or me. “Go to the ant, you sluggard: observe her ways and become w … more →

Tags: Jewish Identity, ANT's, Housekeeping, Edmund O. Wilson, King Solomon

No Country for Old Men

Reinaert de V. wrote 2 months ago: Foto : Thomas Dwyer Wendell: It’s a mess, ain’t it, sheriff? Ed Tom Bell: If it ain … more →

Tags: Film Fanatic, No Country for Old Men, No Country for Old Men, Coen Brothers, Medusa, Existentialisme., film, analyse, betekenis

No Country for Old Men

Reinaert de V. wrote 2 months ago: Foto : Thomas Dwyer Wendell: It’s a mess, ain’t it, sheriff? Ed Tom Bell: If it ain … more →

Tags: Film Fanatic, No Country for Old Men, No Country for Old Men, Coen Brothers, Medusa, Existentialisme., film, analyse, betekenis

In search of trees in literature

adairjones wrote 2 months ago: In the earliest known work of literary fiction, The Epic of Gilgamesh (2700 BC), jeweled trees f … more →

Tags: musings, Rediscovered, Adair Jones, Milton, Epic of Gilgamesh, Ovid, Metamorphoses, tree of life, Satan

Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities

N wrote 2 months ago: An intense, spiritual, and graceful novel, Invisible Cities is a small book in its physicality but a … more →

Tags: Arts & Culture, Reviews, Books, Invisible Cities, Venice, Marco Polo, Kublai Khan

The Distance of the Moon by ITALO CALVINO

allaboutjeff wrote 2 months ago: At one time, according to Sir George H. Darwin, the Moon was very close to the Earth. Then the tides … more →

Tags: Literature, Short Story, European Literature, Postmodernism, italian literature, The Distance of the Moon, cosmicomics

Reverse Summer Reading List 2009

Morgan Harper wrote 2 months ago: I haven’t read any books. In a while…Aren’t I a 3rd-year English/Literature stude … more →

Tags: summer, Reading, List, 2009, Summer Reading List, summer reading list 2009, Sara Gruen, CS Lewis, Junot Diaz


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