Italo Calvino was a writer and journalist. Italo Calvino is the author of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories, Difficult Loves, Marcovaldo: The Seasons in the City, Why Read the Classics?, The Queen’s Necklace, Under the Jaguar Sun, Italian Folktales, The Path to the Spiders’ Nests, The Literature Machine, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, and Our Ancestors.
Calvino was born in Cuba in the year 1923, but was raised in San Remo, Italy, where the inspiration for his various works were born. He received a degree in literature in 1947 from the University of Turin. In the later years, Calvino developed a passion for teaching and films, and travelled widely to fulfill these pursuits. In the year 1985, he died of brain hemorrhage. He won several awards during his lifetime, including the World Fantasy Award, Riccione Prize, Bagutta Prize, Viareggio Prize, Saint-Vincent Prize, International Charles Veillon Prize, and the Legion of Honour.
Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant” (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
One of the world's best storytellers, Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities) pinpoints for future generations the universal values for literature. Here are his works, methods, intentions, and hopes.
某些书在你还没看过的时候,你就已经喜欢上了,你看过之后才发现,其实它从来就是你所拥有的,也该是你所拥有的,就像命中注定的无法挥去的某些缠绕;亦如某些城市,你没到之前你觉得你已经到过那里,到了那之后你才发现自己一直在那里。 你可以把这本书当成一个谎言,是卡尔维...
评分人的情绪有时会崩溃,没有征兆,没有迹象,就在现在,怎么的,突然的,我似乎抑制不住自己了。怎么回事,只是在听一些法语歌,只是打开几个网页在看,怎么就难受起来,一阵疼,喉咙口有什么东西,要吐,秽物,不是,不,是。 多久以前,有人说我写得油滑;多久以前,我很想证明...
评分 评分每年都会有人去把我国、甚至是世界上的主要城市进行幸福指数的排名,然后大家兴致勃勃地进行讨论。如果所在城市排列在前茅,就会自鸣得意,如果排在后列,就会哀怨连天,更加理直气壮地抱怨每天枯燥重复的工作。我们以为这样讨论城市里的幸福感是科学的,但其实每一次讨...
似乎不费吹灰之力造出的想象力的盛宴,这就是大师吧
评分defiance of all conventions and assumptions, city layout as memory aid, city of rotational grazing (living), cities of the dead and the unborn, memories, imaginations, and appearances as realities, language and reality as symbols, time and possibility as dimensions
评分书读二遍,其意自现。
评分It is such an astonishing book that it is not even describable, because anything I say will not do it justice. A work of a literary genius!
评分好书一本 思维跳跃得不知所以
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