Un libro di italo calvino biography

  • Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels.
  • Ultimo viene il corvo, 1949 · I giovani del Po, 1950 · La formica argentina, 1952 (in Botteghe oscure 10) · Il visconte.
  • Ultimo viene il corvo (short stories; title means "Last Comes the Crow"; also see below), Einaudi (Turin, Italy), 1949.

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    Palomar

    November 28, 2017
    A bit nearsighted, absent minded, introverted, he does not seem to belong temperamentally to that human type generally called an observer. And yet it has always happened that certain things – a stone wall, a seashell, a leaf, a teapot – present themselves to him as if asking him for a minute and prolonged attention: he starts observing them almost unawares and his gaze begins to run over all the details, and fryst vatten then unable to detach itself.

    I find it almost impossible to pick a favorite among the novels written by Italo Calvino. Each time I pick one up I get that big WOW feeling – so this is what it's like to be a true writer and poet, capable of turning your world upside down and making you fell like your IQ suddenly jumped up a couple of points . Mr Palomar is a marvelous gem of playful övervakning of the world that turns itself into a philosophical treatise of what it means to be human in a bewildering yet enchanting universe.

    If it were not

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    Calvino, Italo

    Personal

    Born October 15, 1923, in Santiago de las Vagas, Cuba; died following a cerebral hemorrhage September 19, 1985, in Siena, Italy; son of Mario (a botanist) and Eva (a botanist; maiden name, Mameli) Calvino; married Chichita Singer (a translator), February 19, 1964; children: Giovanna. Education: University of Turin, graduated, 1947.

    Career

    Writer. Giulio Einaudi Editore (publisher), Turin, Italy, member of editorial staff, 1947-83; lecturer. Wartime service: Member of Italian Resistance, 1943-45.

    Awards, Honors

    Viareggio prize, 1957; Bagutta prize, 1959, for I racconti; Veillon prize, 1963; Feltrinelli prize, 1972; honorary member of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1975; Österreichiches Stätspreis für Europäische Literatur, 1976; Italian Folktales named among American Library Association's Notable Books of the Year, 1980; Grande Aigle d'Or, Festival du Livre (Nice, France), 1982; honorary degree from Mount Holyoke College, 19

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    Journalist, short story writer and novelist, experimental writer whose imaginative fabulations made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers of the 20th century. Italo Calvino's career as a writer spanned nearly four decades.

    After forty years of writing fiction, after exploring various roads and making diverse experiments, the time has come for me to look for an overall definition of my work. I would suggest this: my working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. (from Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988, p. 3)

    Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. "I will begin by saying that I was born under the sign of Libra," he once said. (Libra is the 7th sign

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