The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Title | The Castle of Crossed Destinies PDF eBook |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780156154550 |
"A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their tales. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness."--Goodreads
The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
Title | The Castle Of Crossed Destinies PDF eBook |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2010-12-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1446414213 |
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness.
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Title | The Castle of Crossed Destinies PDF eBook |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Experimental fiction |
ISBN | 0099268051 |
Calvino tells the mingled tales of The Castle of Crossed Destinies by means of tarot cards. Travellers meet in a castle - or, in a second section, a tavern - where their powers of speech are magically taken from them and a tarot card is placed at their di
Mr. Palomar
Title | Mr. Palomar PDF eBook |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Publisher | HMH |
Total Pages | 143 |
Release | 1986-09-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547542380 |
A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities. In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination.” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world sublime and ridiculous. Like the telescope for which he is named, Mr. Palomar is a natural observer. “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things,” he believes, “that you can venture to seek what is underneath.” Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, or a topless sunbather, he tends to let his meditations stray from the present moment to the great beyond. And though he may fail as an objective spectator, he is the best of company. “Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku,” wrote Time Out. A play on a world fragmented by our individual perceptions, this inventive and irresistible novel encapsulates the life’s work of an artist of the highest order, “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian).
Hermit in Paris
Title | Hermit in Paris PDF eBook |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0544146697 |
A posthumously published collection of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings recounting his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, paying homage to his influences, tracing the evolution of his literary style, and commenting wryly on his travels in the United States.
Last Comes the Raven
Title | Last Comes the Raven PDF eBook |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0544146700 |
“Calvino . . . managed effortlessly what no author in English could quite claim: his novels and stories and fables were both classically modernist and giddily postmodern, embracing both experiment and tradition, at once conceptual and humane, intimate and mythic.” — Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection take place in a World War II–era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities. A trio of gluttonous burglars invades a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In the title story, a compact masterpiece of shifting perspectives, a panicked soldier tries to keep his wits—and his life—when he faces off against a young partisan with a loaded rifle and miraculous aim. Select stories from Last Comes the Raven have been published in translation, but the collection as a whole has never appeared in English. This volume, including several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein, is an important addition to Calvino's legacy.
The Puccini Companion
Title | The Puccini Companion PDF eBook |
Author | William Weaver |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780393320527 |
This lively and informative collection touches upon all of the master's operas and also offers select bibliographies, a chronology, and a dramatis personae of the countless people who participated in Puccini's career.