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The Inkwell Bookstore Blog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Calvino’s Italian Folktale s is now my favorite folktale collection. It is a huge paperback with hundreds of stories in it, which average about two pages each. Calvino collected Italian folktales, sometimes building on previous folktale collectors’ work, and made slight changes - which he makes note of, unlike the Grimms - for continuity or even aesthetics. I would not have...
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boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... content, these maidens: in the morning you hear them singing. extract from The Invisible Cities , Italo Calvino. Harvest Books (1978)
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high up in the trees (Free subscription) | yesterday
This summer I am not going away. I will be spending it in Melbourne for the main, nose buried in a book. I hope to make my way at leisurely pace through a pile of novels that for too long have languished on my list of intended reads. My tower of intentions needs seeing to. Upon my list, earmarked for discovery is The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs, The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, The...
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SJCPL Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
... a CD for holiday parties. Sting shows his literary roots but taking the title of his album from Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter Night A Traveler , and, like Calvino, is telling a story about his favorite season and reflecting over the “ghosts” of the past year. Delight in the quiet beauty of this season with a this CD a book, and a hot mug of your favorite drink. Winter is the...
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stars sliding (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... size you never see a single prostitute. They exist only in provincial towns." This is Italo Calvino in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960. I'm trying to think of all the times I've been propositioned by a lady of the night (I've never accepted - is this a masculine failing?) The most ridiculous incident was in Bothwell Street when I was rushing to get the last train home. I'd been travelling...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The Complete Cosmicomics By Italo Calvino, Penguin, £13.50In an interview on television in 1968, the year he published the third collection of his Cosmicomic stories, Italo Calvino was asked why he had been saying that Galileo was the greatest Italian writer. Calvino replied that Galileo used language “not as a neutral utensil, but with literary awareness, with a...
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New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Address by Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Yunus Carrim, on South African cities network third Urban Conference, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality 24 November 2009 "South African cities today: some challenges" Many cities in one Invisible cities, by the Italian writer, Italo Calvino, are a fable about Marco Polo's numerous adventures. In the story,...
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electrichalibut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... a couple of novels by two of its more well-known members: If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino . You can gauge quite quickly whether you're going to enjoy this or not by gauging whether you're intrigued or enraged by this opening paragraph : You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler . Relax. Concentrate....
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
What, apart from being dead and, in their different ways, remarkable, do the following authors have in common: Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, William Burroughs, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Janet Frame, Allen Ginsberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Yukio Mishima, Edward Said, Susan Sontag, Hunter S Thompson, John Updike, Evelyn Waugh... and Vladimir...
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a456 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... not, for the most part, the most physically demanding of activities. Recall the opening moments of Italo Calvino 's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1981), when the author asks the reader to "Find the most comfortable position: seated, stretched out, curled up, or lying flat." All that is required is the reader's commitment, and such commitment can take an unspecified...
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A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It's really too soon to be thinking about reading plans for next year, but I find myself doing so anyway. Mostly I want to have very few plans and just see where my reading takes me, but there are a...
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CultureBot.org (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... for travel and research in Abu Dhabi, UAE and Cape Town, South Africa for a film project based on Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City and Invisible Cities . Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere Support for travel to Castelfidardo, Italy to attend the 34th annual Festival Internazionale Fisarmonica and tour the Borsini factory. Tuan Andrew Nguyen Support for a project...
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3rings (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... trees to create a permanent human habitat, and he was the fictional Cosimo di Rondo, namesake of Italo Calvino’s great novel The Baron in the Trees . Treehouse Hotel. Designed by Dass. Dass ’s Treehouse, to the contrary, is very real, though it is temporary. Built for Lisbon’s Experimenta Design —a two-month-long “international Biennale dedicated to design, architecture and creativity”—the...
