Si una nit d'hivern un viatger explica les vicissituds d'una lectura frustrada. Els protagonistes són un lector -el Lector- i una lectora -la Lectora- i les interrupcions constants que pateixen sempre que es disposen a llegir. El responsable...
Si en una época de mi actividad literaria me sentí atraído por los folktales, por los fairytales, no fue por fidelidad a una tradición étnica (pues mis raíces están en una Italia del todo moderna y cosmopol...
Italo Calvino se preguntaba en su libro ¿Por qué leer a los clásicos? sobre qué convierte a un autor o a una obra en un clásico. Para él, existían múltiples factores, los que articuló en cator...
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.
Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection--one of Calvino's earliest--take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this...
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 Baldwi...
Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy--he hunts, sows crop...
"The quirkiness and the grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work, the incandescence of vision, make this collection well worth reading." --Margaret Atwood
In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears. When the two halves become rivals...
An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem--now available in an independent volume for the first time--that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood.