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Italo Calvino (/ k æ l ˈ v iː n oʊ /, [1] [2] also US: / k ɑː l ˈ-/; [3] Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; [4] 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible ...
In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov. [4] The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the literary group Oulipo. [5] The structure of the text is said to be an adaptation of the structural semiology of A. J. Greimas. [5]
Cosmicomics (Italian: Le cosmicomiche) is a collection of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories were originally published between 1964 and 1965 in the Italian periodicals Il Caffè and Il Giorno.
Qfwfq is as old as the universe and has taken various forms, of which Qfwfq retains his memory. For example, in the short story "Blood, Sea" (found in the collection t zero) this character is a man riding in a car with three other people, but this man also remembers when he lived in the form of an amoeba of sorts inhabiting a primeval ocean. [1]
The Complete Cosmicomics is a 2009 book that collects almost all [1] of the Cosmicomic stories by Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino. The single volume collection includes the following: The 12 stories that comprise Cosmicomics; The 11 stories that comprise t zero (also published as Time and the Hunter)
The Baron in the Trees (Italian: Il barone rampante lit. ' The Rampant Baron ') is a 1957 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino.Described as a conte philosophique [1] and a metaphor for independence, it tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom.
t zero (original title: Ti con zero) is a 1967 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. The title story is based on a particularly uncertain moment in the life of a lion hunter. This second in time, t 0, is considered by the hunter against known previous seconds (t −1, t −2, ...) and hypothetical future seconds (t 1, t 2
Cover of the first edition, published by Einaudi, Turin.. Mr. Palomar is a 1983 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.Its original Italian title is Palomar.In an interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated that he began writing Mr. Palomar in 1975, making it a predecessor to earlier published works such as If on a winter's night a traveler. [1]