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Klätterbaronen
AvItalo Calvino
Pocket, Svenska, 2017
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(6)
89 kr
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Den italienske författaren Italo Calvinos (1923 – 1985) prosa kännetecknas av en bedräglig lätthet och stor berättarglädje. Nu får en ny generation läsare möjlighet att uppleva ett av 1900-talets största författarskap. Med början hösten 2016 återutges och nyöversätts Calvinos centrala verk. Samtidigt som debutromanen "Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon" (1947) återutges också de tre sagolika och absurda romanerna "Den tudelade visconten" (1952), "Klätterbaronen" (1957) och "Den obefintlige riddaren" (1959).

Italo Calvinos älskade roman "Klätterbaronen" är berättelsen om en ung italiensk adelsman som i revolt mot sin far beslutar sig för att leva resten av sitt liv i träden. På en klar prosa och med en hisnande upp nningsrikedom skildrar Calvino klätterbaronens äventyrliga liv på den italienska landsbygden.

Översättning: Karin Alin

Originalets titel: Il barone rampante

Jag har velat göra dem till en trilogi om erfarenheter av hur mänskliga varelser förverkligar sig, i Den obefintlige riddaren ett erövrande av varat, i Den tudelade visconten en strävan efter fullständighet bortom de stympningar samhället utsätter en för, i Klätterbaronen en väg till en icke-individualistisk fullständighet som kan uppnås genom troheten mot ett individuellt självbestämmande: Tre steg i riktning mot friheten…

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
139 kr
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A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero of them all is you, the reader.'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell'A writer of dizzying ambition and variety, each of his stories is a fresh adventure into the possibilities of fiction' Guardian
Invisible Cities
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
139 kr
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Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.'This is a captivating meditation on culture, language, time, memory and the nature of human experience.'Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose... The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island' Jeanette Winterson'Touches inexhaustibly on the essence of the human urge to create cities, be in cities, speak of cities' Guardian'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times
Complete Cosmicomics
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
169 kr
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Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all there, - dld Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?' The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, through millennia and across galaxies. It is witnessed through the eyes of 'cosmic know-it-all' Qfwfq, an exuberant, chameleon-like figure, who takes the shape of a dinosaur, a mollusc, a steamer captain and a moon milk gatherer, among others. This is the first complete edition in English of Italo Calvino's funny, whimsical and delightful stories, which blend scientific fact, flights of fancy, parody and wordplay to show the strangeness and the wonders of the world. Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. Among his other works published in Penguin Modern Classics are Italian Folktales, Hermit in Paris, Into the War, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Numbers in the Dark, Six Memos for the Next Millennium and Why Read the Classics?If you liked The Complete Cosmicomics, you might enjoy Jorge Luis Borges' Fictions, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The complete and definitive collection ... a masterpiece' Gilbert Adair, Evening Standard'Dazzling ... a book of revelation' Tim Adams, Observer 'If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life' Salman Rushdie'A landmark in fiction, the work of a master' Ursula K Le Guin, Guardian
Invisible Cities [50th Anniversary Edition]
AvItalo Calvino
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
256 kr
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Illustrated 50th Anniversary Edition - With an introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anthony Doerr A beautiful new illustrated hardcover in the Mariner Classics line: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels--a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.
With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed... In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo--Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: stories about memory and desire, art and creation, life and death. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor realizes these fantastic places are more familiar than they appear.
With a brilliant new introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr, and dreamlike illustrations of the cities interspersed throughout, this edition breathes new life into Calvino's classic, a celebration of the story's profound invention and enduring insight.
De osynliga städerna
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Svenska, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
285 kr
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De sammanflätade ödenas lott
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Svenska, 2006
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
334 kr
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En man anländer till ett lantligt och avsides liggande slott. Runt middagsbordet sitter en samling resenärer; de är alla stumma, traumatiserade av fasansfulla händelser som de bara kan berätta om genom en tarotkortlek. Korten - Sjuan i svärd, Kungar och Drottningar i Bägare och i Mynt, Lyckohjulet, Den Hängde, Tornet, Döden - bildar berättelser som alluderar på myter som de om Oidipus, Hamlet och Faust, och De sammanflätade ödenas slott blir till en enastående allegori över litteraturen och läsandet. Romanen är en av den postmoderna litteraturens mest centrala texter. Italo Calvino (1923-1985) föddes på Kuba, och växte upp i Italien. 1973, samma år som Il castello dei destini incrociati kom ut, fick han det prestigefyllda Premio Feltrinelli-priset. De sammanflätade ödenas slott ingår i Modernistas serie Moderna klassiker. Romanen utkommer nu för första gången i svensk översättning. Pressröster: »Sällan har 1: den relativa omöjligheten i att förstå en annan människa, 2: din ömtåliga självförståelse, med det opålitliga minnet och de nervösa sinnena som sina enda instrument, och 3: din i grunden godtyckliga tillhörighet med det samhälle du lever i - i litteraturhistorien behandlats på ett originellare och vackrare sätt.« Henrik Petersen, Helsingborgs Dagblad »Boken är lika förtrollande som Calvinos andra mästerverk.« Stefan Jonsson, Dagens Nyheter
Mr Palomar
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
139 kr
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Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh.'Beautifully nimble, solitary feats of imagination' Seamus Heaney'Beguiling' Time
Distance of the Moon
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
59 kr
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'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Den tudelade visconten
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Svenska, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
229 kr
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Den italienske författaren Italo Calvinos (1923 – 1985) prosa kännetecknas av en bedräglig lätthet och stor berättarglädje. Nu får en ny generation läsare möjlighet att uppleva ett av 1900-talets största författarskap. Med början i höst återutges och nyöversätts Calvinos centrala verk. Samtidigt som debutromanen "Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon" (1947) återutges också de tre sagolika och absurda romanerna "Den tudelade visconten" (1952), "Klätterbaronen" (1957) och"Den obefintlige riddaren" (1959).

"Den tudelade visconten" är en makaber berättelse om en adelsman som blir delad mitt itu av en kanonkula. Den ena, mer ondsinta halvan, återvänder till det feodala hemlandet. Kort därpå återvänder också den andra, mer dygdiga halvan. De förälskar sig i samma kvinna och blir våldsamma rivaler, något som får oanade konsekvenser.

Översättning: Karin Alin

Originalets titel: Il visconte dimezzato

"Jag har velat göra dem till en trilogi om erfarenheter av hur mänskliga varelser förverkligar sig, i 'Den obefintlige riddaren' ett erövrande av varat, i 'Den tudelade visconten' en strävan efter fullständighet bortom de stympningar samhället utsätter en för, i 'Klätterbaronen' en väg till en icke-individualistisk fullständighet som kan uppnås genom troheten mot ett individuellt självbestämmande: Tre steg i riktning mot friheten…"
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Den obefintlige riddaren
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Svenska, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
229 kr
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I Den obefintlige riddaren återberättar en äldre hemlighetsfull nunna historien om Agilulf, en tom rustning som för många år sedan räddade en kvinna från att bli våldtagen. Hans försök att finna henne långt senare leder honom ut på en resa genom Frankrike, England och Nordafrika.

Den italienske författaren Italo Calvinos (1923 – 1985) prosa kännetecknas av en bedräglig lätthet och stor berättarglädje. Nu får en ny generation läsare möjlighet att uppleva ett av 1900-talets största författarskap. Med början i höst återutges och nyöversätts Calvinos centrala verk. Samtidigt som debutromanen Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon (1947) återutges också de tre sagolika och absurda romanerna Den tudelade visconten (1952), Klätterbaronen (1957) och Den obefintlige riddaren (1959).
Under the Jaguar Sun
AvItalo Calvino,Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
84 kr
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest … The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibres that absorb the sun
Cosmicomics
AvItalo Calvino
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
142 kr
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Twelve enchanting and fantastical stories about the evolution of the universe from the giant of Italian literature, Italo Calvino. His characters - whether human, dinosaur or mollusc - disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms - and have time for a love life.'A landmark in fiction, the work of a master' - Ursula K Le Guin
Why Read the Classics?
AvItalo Calvino,Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
149 kr
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Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an absorbing collection of Italo Calvino's witty and passionate criticism.
Our Ancestors
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
148 kr
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Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball, Baron Cosimo retires to the trees for the rest of his days, and Agiluf the Knight is an empty suit of armour.Our Ancestors brings together three surreal novellas set in distinct historical worlds across medieval and early modern Europe. In The Cloven Viscount, a nobleman returns from war as two separate beings, one cruel and one impossibly virtuous, leaving his community to suffer the consequences. In The Baron in the Trees, a young aristocrat climbs into the branches of the Italian Riviera and refuses to touch the ground again, living out his life among the leaves while history moves below him.In The Nonexistent Knight, a suit of armour fights in the army of Charlemagne, sustained only by will and duty. Our Ancestors blends satire with fable, exploring how power, war and social expectation shape the self.'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times
Italian Folktales
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
208 kr
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Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to folk literature.
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
149 kr
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'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinished at his death, were the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, which he was due to deliver at Harvard in 1985-86. These surviving drafts explore the literary concepts closest to his heart: Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth), in serious yet playful essays that reveal his debt to the comic strip and the folktale. This collection, now in a fluent and supple new translation, is a brilliant précis of a great writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium he addressed.Translated by Geoffrey Brock 'The book I give most to people is Six Memos for the Next Millennium' Ali Smith'Wonderful . . . full of wit and erudition' Daily Telegraph
Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon
AvItalo Calvino
E-bok
Svenska, 2016
169 kr
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Tioårige Pin bor tillsammans med sin prostituerade syster i en liten italiensk kuststad under andra världskriget. Han tillbringar så mycket tid han kan på den lokala baren där han roar besökarna med sånger och historier. Ovetandes om att de alla är partisaner berättar han om en av systerns kunder, en tysk soldat, vars pistol de ber honom stjäla. Detta blir början på pojkens resa in i en obegriplig och våldsam vuxenvärld.

I bokens senare skrivna förord beskriver Italo Calvino själv omständigheterna kring dess utgivning. Som så många andra italienare tvångsrekryterades han till den Mussolinistödda milisen, men valde att fly och anslöt sig till ett partisanförband. I Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon skildrar han genom barnets blick sina erfarenheter av krigets vardag.

Den italienske författaren Italo Calvinos (1923 – 1985) prosa kännetecknas av en bedräglig lätthet och stor berättarglädje. Nu får en ny generation läsare möjlighet att uppleva ett av 1900-talets största författarskap. Med början i höst återutges och nyöversätts Calvinos centrala verk. Samtidigt som debutromanen Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon (1947) återutges också de tre sagolika och absurda romanerna Den tudelade visconten (1952), Klätterbaronen (1957) och Den obefintlige riddaren (1959).
Path to the Spiders' Nests
AvItalo Calvino,Martin Mclaughlin
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
148 kr
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Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the adults' war.Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985. Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others.
Into the War
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
135 kr
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Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, 'Into the War', we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to be conscripted into Mussolini's army, while in 'The Avanguardisti in Menton', Calvino and his friends take a revealingly anti-climactic trip to the garrisoned French town of Menton, the sole Italian conquest of the early months of the conflict. The final story, 'UNPA Nights', is a touching, comic tale of friendship in a blackout, where the narrator's imagination wanders as he roams through the seedier parts of the darkened town instead of guarding the school buildings. Into the War is Calvino at his autobiographical best, combining brilliantly recollected memory with compelling wit and perfect prose.
Italian Folktales
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
357 kr
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If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
AvItalo Calvino
Inbunden, Engelska, 1993
179 kr
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Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book - IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day
Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon
AvItalo Calvino
Inbunden, Svenska, 2016
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
230 kr
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Med början hösten 2016 återutges och nyöversätts den italienske författaren Italo Calvinos centrala verk, och en ny generation läsare får möjlighet att uppleva vad som anses vara ett av 1900-talets främsta författarskap.

Debutromanen "Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon" utkommer nu för första gången på svenska. I bokens senare skrivna förord beskriver Italo Calvino själv omständigheterna kring dess utgivning. Som så många andra italienare tvångsrekryterades han till den Mussolinistödda milisen, men valde att fly och anslöt sig till ett partisanförband. I "Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon" skildrar han genom barnets blick sina erfarenheter av krigets vardag.

Tioårige Pin bor tillsammans med sin prostituerade syster i en liten italiensk kuststad under andra världskriget. Han tillbringar så mycket tid han kan på den lokala baren där han roar besökarna med sånger och historier. Ovetandes om att de alla är partisaner berättar han om en av systerns kunder, en tysk soldat, vars pistol de ber honom stjäla. Detta blir början på pojkens resa in i en obegriplig och våldsam vuxenvärld.

Samtidigt med "Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon" återutges också de tre sagolika och absurda romanerna "Den tudelade visconten" (1952), "Klätterbaronen" (1957) och "Den obefintlige riddaren" (1959).

»Jag har velat göra dem till en trilogi om erfarenheter av hur mänskliga varelser förverkligar sig, i "Den obefintlige riddaren" ett erövrande av varat, i "Den tudelade visconten" en strävan efter fullständighet bortom de stympningar samhället utsätter en för, i "Klätterbaronen" en väg till en icke-individualistisk fullständighet som kan uppnås genom troheten mot ett individuellt självbestämmande: Tre steg i riktning mot friheten …«ITALO CALVINO

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) debuterade som författare 1947 och ingick i en neorealistisk våg efter krigsslutet. Debutromanen "Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon" publicerades två år efter Roberto Rossellinis "Rom – öppen stad" (1945) och året före Vittorio De Sicas "Cykeltjuven" (1948). Idag räknas han till ett av 1900-talets främsta författarskap.

Översättning: Johanna Hedenberg.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 1982
232 kr
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Narrative of Trajan's Column
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
110 kr
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'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished'Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column - tell us about the greater truths of the world, space and time.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Baron in the Trees
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
139 kr
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One act of childhood defiance becomes a lifelong experiment in freedom. From the age of twelve, Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living high in the trees. He walks along paths made from twisted olive branches, makes his bed in a holly oak, bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark and keeps an aerial library of the books with which he educates himself in philosophy and mathematics. Suspended among the leaves, Cosimo encounters bandits and pirates, conducts a passionate love affair and watches the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution and Napoleon pass beneath him. The Baron in the Trees is a classic literary fable about independence, imagination and political idealism. Playful, philosophical and wonderfully inventive, Italo Calvino’s novel turns one boy’s act of defiance into a lifelong experiment in freedom. 'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie 'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times
The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
276 kr
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Adam, One Afternoon
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
135 kr
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This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.
Marcovaldo
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
135 kr
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A poor city worker keeps seeking pockets of nature in modern urban life, with comic and sometimes disastrous results. Marcovaldo is poor, hopeful and unusually alert to the natural world. In the modern Italian city where he lives with his family, he searches for mushrooms, fresh air, moonlight, birds, fish, rest and small enchantments among streets, factories, neon and supermarkets. Each attempt turns comic, tender or disastrous. A cure becomes a problem, a picnic becomes a misadventure, a glimpse of beauty becomes another collision with modern life. Across twenty seasonal stories, Italo Calvino turns one working man’s hunger for nature into a series of sharp, playful fables about poverty, urban living and imagination. Marcovaldo is a classic short story cycle for readers looking for translated Italian fiction, literary comedy, social satire and magical everyday strangeness. Funny, melancholy and ingenious, it shows Calvino at his most accessible and quietly subversive. 'Delightful and rewarding as always' Observer. 'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times
Literature Machine
Essays
AvItalo Calvino
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
173 kr
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'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is not only constantly and supremely intelligent; he is constantly and supremely faithful to his narrative imagination' Guardian

Italo Calvino – författare

Klätterbaronen

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Invisible Cities

Complete Cosmicomics

Invisible Cities [50th Anniversary Edition]

De osynliga städerna

De sammanflätade ödenas lott

Mr Palomar

Distance of the Moon

Den tudelade visconten

Den obefintlige riddaren

Under the Jaguar Sun

Cosmicomics

Why Read the Classics?

Our Ancestors

Italian Folktales

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon

Path to the Spiders' Nests

Into the War

Italian Folktales

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller

Stigen där spindlarna bygger bon

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Narrative of Trajan's Column

Baron in the Trees

The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition

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