41. Italo Calvino Excerpt Passage from If on a winter s night a traveller. http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/hu/Calvino.html

Italo Calvino Excerpt From "If on a winter's night a traveller" (one of Haig's favourites) ... I'm speaking to you two, a fairly unrecognisable tangle under the rumpled sheet. Maybe afterward you will go your separate ways and the story will again have to shift gears painfully, to alternate between the feminine tu voi , a second person plural, you are two tu s, more separate and circumscribed than before. (This is already true now, when you are still occupied, each with the other's presence, in an exclusive fashion. Imagine how it will be in a little while, when ghosts that do not meet will frequent your minds, accompanying the encounters of your bodies tested by habit.) Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not without some intervention of the taste buds. Hearing also has its role, alert to your gasps and your trills. It is not only the body that is, in you, the object of raeding: the body matters insofar as it is part of a complex of elaborate elements, not all visible and not all present, but manifested in visible and present events: the clouding of your eyes, your laughing, the words you speak, your way of gathering and spreading your hair, your initiatives and your reticences, and all the signs that are on the frontier between you and usage and habits and memory and prehistory and fashion, all codes, all the poor alphabets by which one human being believes at certain moments that he is reading another human being.

42. Italo Calvino Translate this page italo calvino, Italiani, vi esorto ai classici , «L Espresso», 28 giugno 1981, italo calvino, Perché leggere i classici, Oscar Mondadori, Milano 1995 http://www.classicitaliani.it/novecent/calvino_01_classici.htm

Italo Calvino Perché leggere i classici Edizioni di riferimento Italo Calvino, " Italiani, vi esorto ai classici", «L'Espresso», 28 giugno 1981, pp. 58-68. Italo Calvino, Perché leggere i classici, Oscar Mondadori, Milano 1995 Cominciamo con qualche proposta di definizione. I classici sono quei libri di cui si sente dire di solito: «Sto rileggendo...» e mai «Sto leggendo...» Questo avviene almeno tra quelle persone che si suppongono «di vaste letture»; non vale per la gioventù, età in cui l'incontro col mondo, e coi classici come parte del mondo, vale proprio in quanto primo incontro. Il prefisso iterativo davanti al verbo «leggere» può essere una piccola ipocrisia da parte di quanti si vergognano d'ammettere di non aver letto un libro famoso. Per rassicurarli basterà osservare che per vaste che possano essere le letture «di formazione» d'un individuo, resta sempre un numero enorme d'opere fondamentali che uno non ha letto. Chi ha letto tutto Erodoto e tutto Tucidide alzi la mano. E Saint-Simon? E il cardinale di Retz? Ma anche i grandi cicli romanzeschi dell'Ottocento sono più nominati che letti. Balzac in Francia si comincia a leggerlo a scuola, e dal numero delle edizioni in circolazione si direbbe che si continua a leggerlo anche dopo. Ma in Italia se si facesse un sondaggio Doxa temo che Balzac risulterebbe agli ultimi posti. Gli appassionati di Dickens in Italia sono una ristretta élite di persone che quando s'incontrano si mettono subito a ricordare personaggi e episodi come di gente di loro conoscenza. Anni fa Michel Butor, insegnando in America, stanco di sentirsi chiedere di Emile Zola che non aveva mai letto, si decise a leggere tutto il ciclo dei Rougon-Macquart. Scoperse che era tutto diverso da come credeva: una favolosa genealogia mitologica e cosmogonica, che descrisse in un bellissimo saggio.

43. Moos: Italo Calvino As Author/Game-master In _If On A Winter's Night A Traveler_ Essay on the metafictive elements of If on a winter s night a traveler from a literary theory perspective. http://www.public.asu.edu/~dgilfill/digitaltexts/final_projects/moos/

Italo Calvino as Author/Game-master in If on a winter's night a traveler In an interview conducted in January 1978, one year before the publication of his novel If on a winter's night a traveler Iown ), Italo Calvino responded to a question about his future writing plans with these words: "What I keep open is fiction, a storytelling that is lively and inventive, as well as the more reflective kind of writing in which narrative and essay become one" (Calvino, Hermit in Paris 190). Calvino created this very type of fiction in Iown Iown we cannot ignore the sections of the novel that deal with aspects of writing, authorship, and publishing in ways that unabashedly reflect Calvino's own opinions and feelings. By speaking his opinions through his characters (who we as readers naturally identify with) Calvino is persuading us to identify with him, and is therefore able to maintain his position of control and authority. Thus, through the playful use of metafiction Calvino can achieve the creation of a novel that is both self-consciously reflective and "lively and inventive." Iown The game strategy emerges clearly [. . .] by creating suspense the author captures our interest, but he keeps deferring the consummation of our curiosity [. . .] In Calvino's game we, the readers, risk frustration: letting ourselves be dragged into the story, we are bound to suffer from aroused and dissatisfied curiosity. (Fink 3)

44. Authologies: Italo Calvino Translate this page Authologies, dossiers complets sur des auteurs ignorés par le web. http://authologies.free.fr/calvino.htm

La Voce della Democrazia Contemporaneo , en passant par La Repubblica ou le magazine Son premier roman, Le corbeau vient le dernier , suivi par Le vicomte pourfendu et Le chevalier inexistant . Ces trois "contes philosophiques", au travers des tribulations d'un chevalier fendu en deux par un ennemi, et dont les deux parties poursuivent leur existence, l'une consacrée au bien et l'autre au mal, ou celles d'un baron qui refuse de descendre de son arbre, reflètent avec humour les préoccupations sociales et politiques de Calvino. Si par une nuit d'hiver, un voyageur , et Pourquoi lire les classiques Cosmicomics Les Villes invisibles Sous le soleil jaguar Salman Rushdie disait de lui: "Il met sur le papier ce que vous saviez depuis toujours, sauf que vous n'y aviez pas pensé avant." 1949 - Le corbeau vient le dernier 1958 - I raconti 1959 - Le chevalier inexistant et le vicomte pourfendu 1963 - Marcovaldo ou les saisons en ville 1965 - La formica argentina Cosmicomics 1968 - La memoria del mondo 1970 - Gli amori difficili 1972 - Les villes invisibles Si par une nuit d'hiver un voyageur 1981 - Contes italiens 1983 - Palomar 1986 - Collection de sable Sous le soleil jaguar 1990 - La route de San Giovanni 1991 - Pourquoi lire les classiques Cosmicomics Si par une nuit d'hiver, un voyageur

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46. Italo Calvino Quotes 10 quotes and quotations by italo calvino. italo calvino Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/italo_calvino.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Italo Calvino Quotes Type: Journalist Quotes Category: Italian Journalist Quotes Date of Birth: October 15 Date of Death: September 19 Nationality: Italian Find on Amazon: Italo Calvino Related Authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Kin Hubbard ... Steve Powers A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. Italo Calvino In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. Italo Calvino It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. Italo Calvino The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. Italo Calvino The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Italo Calvino The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

47. Italo Calvino Sparks Obsessions | MetaFilter italo calvino s Invisible Cities is so called because it asserts that what makes up a city is not so much its physical structure but the impression it http://www.metafilter.com/42164/Italo-Calvino-sparks-obsessions

skip to main content MetaFilter AskMeFi Projects ... New User Tags: calvino italocalvino books art ... inspiration var federated_media_section = ''; Advertise here: Contact FM Italo Calvino sparks obsessions May 20, 2005 2:28 PM Subscribe Italo Calvino 's Invisible Cities is so called because it asserts that what makes up a city is not so much its physical structure but the impression it imparts upon its visitors, the way its inhabitants move within, something unseen that hums between the cracks. This, however, has in no way dissuaded people from attempting to give form to his works . One such example is the Hotel Tressants , a building in Menorca, Spain containing 8 rooms named after and inspired by various cities from the novel. Meanwhile, artists offer illustrations , installations , music and dance , hypertexts , computer programs and animations , even View-Master slides , while intellectuals offer readings and commentary , lectures , and critical texts sparked by the man and his writings. It has been dubbed "The Calvino Effect ". Do you know of any more?

48. Italo Calvino Quotes italo calvino quotes, Searchable and browsable database of quotations with author and subject indexes. Quotes from famous political leaders, authors, http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Italo-Calvino/1/index.html

i Topics Authors Proverbs ... Quote-A-Day Main Menu Topics Authors Proverbs Today in History ... Contact Sponsor 7 Quotes for 'Italo Calvino' in the Database. Pages: Author Letter "I" A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Topic: Art and Artists Source: None A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Topic: Literary Source: None A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Topic: Literature Source: None Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. Topic: Myths Source: None Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. Topic: Revolution Source: Il Barone Rampante (ch. 28) The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. Topic: Unconscious Source: None The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Topic: Zone Source: None Pages: Topics Authors Proverbs Today in History ... Quote-A-Day All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.

49. Rodcorp: Illustrated Invisible Cities Our own illustrations We re starting to post some current art projects illustrations for italo calvino s Invisible Cities, etc. Some of this was discussed http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2003/09/illustrated_inv.html

rodcorp art, architecture, books, maps, stories, and occasionally how teams and systems work. Main Illustrated Invisible Cities An occasionally-updated list of illustrations of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities , newest first. Mikhail Viesel has illustrated every city in IC (text in Russian, though the explanation is in English) Roman Ondak's work (and workshops) cite Invisible Cities (and remind us of Paul Noble's work); Sergio Bonelli Editore illustrators made 11 drawings for the Milano Triennale ; and here's one more city . Christine Boyer's Cybercities is an interesting read. Our own illustrations: We're starting to post some current art projects : illustrations for Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, etc. Some of this was discussed on an Edward Tufte thread on the London Underground map , where Jeffrey Berg pointed us on to these maps of internet and networks. Wayne Thiebaud illustrated a limited-run edition by Arion Press , see a great set of images here . "The artist Wayne Thiebaud contributed 12 drawings, with the idea that the images of cities and objects remain invisible until the reader takes action. To realize this concept, Andrew Hoyem designed the book with the drawings printed on clear plastic in different colors of inks, each matching the color of the following sheet. The images are revealed only when the transparent sheet is turned back onto the preceding page, a white sheet with printed text." Also: the related Souvenirs of Cities print . (His Hill City (Day City), 1981

50. Italo Calvino A bibliography of italo calvino s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/italo-calvino/

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51. The Paris Review - The Art Of Fiction No. 130 Return to Interview Archive Index. italo calvino, italo calvino calvino Yes, in my childhood. But it must be pointed out that childhood boredom is a http://www.parisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/2027

Return to Interview Archive Index ITALO CALVINO The Art of Fiction No. 130 Interviewed by Damien Pettigrew Issue 124, Fall 1992 Purchase this issue View a manuscript page INTERVIEWER Have you ever been bored? CALVINO Yes, in my childhood. But it must be pointed out that childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another reality. In adulthood, boredom is made of repetition, it is the continuation of something from which we are no longer expecting any surprise. And I . . . would that I had time to get bored today! What I do have is the fear of repeating myself in my literary work. This is the reason that every time I must come up with a new challenge to face, I must find something to do that will look like a novelty, something a little beyond my capabilities. SEARCH Full Search E-mail this page Print View Cart ... Check Out INTERVIEW Kenzaburo Oe FICTION Graham Joyce Alistair Morgan ENCOUNTER Liao Yiwu POETRY Louise Glück Bob Hicok PHOTOGRAPHS Nicolás Haro WEB EXCLUSIVE Liao Yiwu Terms and Conditions Contact Site Map

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54. Italo Calvino Biography italo calvino has advanced far beyond his American and English contemporaries. As they continue to look for the place where the spiders make their nests, http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Calvino_Italo.html

Biography Base Home Link To Us Search Biographies: Browse Biographies A B C D ... Z Italo Calvino Biography Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. Born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba to botanists Mario Calvino and Evelina Mameli (a descendant of Goffredo Mameli) and brother of Floriano Calvino, a famous geologist, he soon moved to Italy, where his family originated and where he lived most of his life. Timeline He stayed in San Remo, in the Riviera, for some 20 years, and enrolled in the Avanguardisti (a fascist youth organisation to which membership was practically compulsory) with whom he took part in the occupation of the French Riviera). He suffered some religious troubles, his familiars being followers of the Waldensian Protestant Church. He met Eugenio Scalfari (later a politician and the founder of the major newspaper La Repubblica), of which he would remain a close friend. In 1941 he moved to Turin, after a long hesitation in choosing between this town and Milan. He often humorously described this choice, and used to define Turin as "a city that is serious but sad". In 1943 he joined the Partisans in the Italian Resistance, in the Garibaldi brigade, with the battlename of Santiago, with Scalfari he created the MUL (universitarian liberal movement) then he entered the (still clandestine) Italian Communist Party).

55. Italo Calvino — Infoplease.com calvino, italo (itul c lv n ) key, 1923–85, Italian novelist. calvino was one of the most popular novelists of the 20th cent. Although loneliness is an http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0809970.html

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56. Italo Calvino - Research And Read Books, Journals, Articles At Research italo calvino at the Questia.com Online Library. http://www.questia.com/library/literature/italo-calvino.jsp

57. Italo Calvino — Blogs, Pictures, And More On WordPress lilly wrote 1 month ago “Qualquer encontro de dois seres no mundo é um dilaceramento.” (p. 64) O visconde partido ao meio / italo calvino. more » http://wordpress.com/tag/italo-calvino/

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58. Italo Calvino (1923-1985) Italian Writer. (19231985) Italian writer. italo calvino was born in Cuba of Italian parents, and he moved to Italy while he was still a youth. He later earned a degree in http://classiclit.about.com/od/calvinoitalo/Calvino_Italo.htm

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59. Italo Calvino Criticism italo calvino 1923–1985. Cuban-born Italian short story writer, novelist, translator, essayist, and journalist. For additional information on calvino s http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/calvino-italo

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Italo Calvino Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Italo Calvino 1923–-1985 Cuban-born Italian short story writer, novelist, translator, essayist, and journalist. For additional information on Calvino's life and works, see SSC, Volume 3. INTRODUCTION Considered a preeminent international literary figure of the post-World War II era, Calvino is admired as an inventive storyteller whose entertaining tales are imbued with underlying moral and philosophical significance. Strongly influenced by the playful fantasy and moralistic content of the fable, as well as modern humanistic and ideological concerns, Calvino's work blends such devices as irony, symbolism, satire, and allegory with realistic detail to address such themes as love, alienation, existence, and identity. Biographical Information Major Works of Short Fiction Calvino's early stories, collected in

60. Calvino As Urbanologist Essay on Invisible Cities, the Oulipo movement, and the sociology of writing. http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/calvino.html

Italo Calvino as Urbanologist Invisible Cities (Calvino 1974)is, on the surface, a series of conversations between an aging Kublai Khan and a young Marco Polo. Khan sees that his empire has grown so vast that it cannot be effectively governed, that it is "an endless, formless ruin" and that only in Polo's accounts can he see "the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites' gnawing." "Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions . . . ," but he listens attentively to the fifty-five short descriptions of cities. So do we. The special quality of this city for the man who arrives there on a September evening, when the days are growing shorter and the multicolored lamps are lighted all at once at the doors of the food stalls and from a terrace a woman's voice cries ooh!, is that he feels envy toward those who now believe they have once before lived an evening identical to this and who think they were happy, that time. [p. 7] The language is evocative, even erotic ("a woman's voice cries ooh!"), and there is pleasure enough in that. Perhaps sociological matters need not be added. But the accumulation of fifty-five such descriptions leaves the reader feeling that there is something here beyond the layering of evocative images, that the book's title says it is about cities because Calvino has something to tell us about cities.

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