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Adam, One Afternoon and Other Storiesby Italo CalvinoISBN 043608273X (0-436-08273-X)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Bajo El Sol Jaguarby Italo CalvinoISBN 8472239578 (84-7223-957-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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The Baron in the Treesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156106809 (0-15-610680-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Baron in the Trees'Book summary:Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun.[via]More editions of The Baron in the Trees:
The Castle of Crossed Destiniesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156154552 (0-15-615455-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Cosmicomicsby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156226006 (0-15-622600-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmicomics'Book summary:An enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. Calvino makes characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves amongst galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms -- and have time for a love life. [via]
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Difficult Lovesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156260557 (0-15-626055-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Difficult Loves'Book summary:One of the warmest and gentlest collections of stories by Calvino, and one of the most grounded in the real world. Lovely and elegant prose that lolls in your imagination like a story whispered into your ear on late spring day. [via]
Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grainby Jay PariniISBN 0231072090 (0-231-07209-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writingsby Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlinISBN 037571426X (0-375-71426-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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If on a Winter's Night a Travelerby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156439611 (0-15-643961-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'Book summary:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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If on a Winter's Night a Travelerby William Weaver, Italo CalvinoISBN 0679420258 (0-679-42025-8)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'Book summary:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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Il Barone Rampanteby Italo Calvino, John Robert WoodhouseISBN 0719004020 (0-7190-0402-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Il Cavaliere Inesistenteby Italo CalvinoISBN 8811666775 (88-11-66677-5)
Hardcover, Garzanti
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Invisible Citiesby Italo Calvino, William WeaverISBN 0156453800 (0-15-645380-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Cities'Book summary:"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take. [via]
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Italian Folktalesby Italo Calvino, George MartinISBN 0156454890 (0-15-645489-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Italian Folktales'Book summary:Chosen as one of the New York Timess ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Italian Folktales:
- Italian Folktales: ISBN 0151457700 (0-15-145770-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers - Italian Folktales: ISBN 0460051008 (0-460-05100-8)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Italian Folktales: ISBN 039474909X (0-394-74909-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon - Italian Folktales: ISBN 0156454890 (0-15-645489-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Los Amores Dificilesby Italo CalvinoISBN 8472231097 (84-7223-109-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the Cityby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156572044 (0-15-657204-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City'Book summary:Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City:
Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973-1976by Gore VidalISBN 0394411285 (0-394-41128-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Mr. Palomarby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156627809 (0-15-662780-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Palomar'Book summary:Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh. [via]
The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscountby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156659751 (0-15-665975-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Numbers in the Darkby Italo Calvino, Tim ParksISBN 0679743537 (0-679-74353-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Por Que Leer Los Clasicos?by Italo CalvinoISBN 8472238679 (84-7223-867-9)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Por Que Leer Los Clasicos?'Book summary:Los clasicos son, para Italo Calvino (1923-1985), aquellos libros que nunca terminan de decir lo que tienen que decir, textos que «cuanto mas cree uno conocerlos de oidas, tanto mas nuevos, inesperados, ineditos resultan al leerlos de verdad». Y ese es el convencimiento que anima a Italo Calvino a comentar los «suyos», segun su criterio de que el clasico de cada uno «es aquel que no puede serte indiferente y que te sirve para definirte a ti mismo en relacion y quizas en contraste con el». Asi, mezclados en el tiempo y en la historia de la literatura universal, el lector descubre las lecturas de Italo Calvino. El resultado de todo ello es una obra que se ha convertido, a su vez, en un clasico. [via]
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Six Memos for the Next Milleniumby Italo CalvinoISBN 0674810406 (0-674-81040-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Six Memos for the Next Millenium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86by Italo Calvino, Patrick CreaghISBN 0679742379 (0-679-74237-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Memos for the Next Millenium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86'Book summary:Italo Calvino cast his lofty thoughts toward the pending millennium long before the rest of us. Now that the zeitgeist has caught up with him, it seems a good time to revisit his Six Memos for the Next Millennium, an investigation into the literary values that he wished to bequeath to future generations. Calvino, the author of Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, and other postmodern fictional works, was to deliver these five "memos" (there was to be a sixth) as Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1985-86, but he died before doing so. These lectures are dense, rigorous, and seemingly full of contradiction. The first is a paean to lightness (though "light like a bird," as Paul Valéry wrote, "and not like a feather"). Lightness is followed by quickness (without "presum[ing] to deny the pleasures of lingering"), exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity. The perfect antidote to writerly laziness. [via]
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T Zeroby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156924005 (0-15-692400-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'T Zero'Book summary:A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty (Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of T Zero:
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Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fictionby Teresa De LauretisISBN 0253204410 (0-253-20441-0)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction'Book summary:"Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory.... In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunitionand for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment." B. Ruby Rich
"... sets philosophical ideas humming.... she has much to say." Cineaste
"I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor." SubStance
This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and womens cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture.
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Under the Jaguar Sunby Italo Calvino, William WeaverISBN 0156927942 (0-15-692794-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Jaguar Sun'Book summary:Three senses-taste, hearing, and smell-dominate the lives of the characters in these witty, fantastical stories. But the senses, promising the fulfillment of desire and an exit from the self, only lead back to their source: the savoring palate, the listening ear, the smelling nose. A sumptuous small gem of a book (Publishers Weekly). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Under the Jaguar Sun:
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United States: Essays, 1952-1992by Gore VidalISBN 0767908066 (0-7679-0806-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'United States: Essays, 1952-1992'Book summary:Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992). State of the union deals with politics and public life: sex, drugs, money, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Holy Family (his essay on the Kennedys), Nixon, and finally Monotheism and its Discontents , a scathing critique of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In state of being, we are given personal responses to people and events: recollections of his childhood, E. Nesbit, Tarzan, Tennessee Williams and Anais Nin. [via]
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- United States Essays 1952-1992: ISBN 0349105243 (0-349-10524-3)
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Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - United States: Essays, 1952-1992: ISBN 0679414894 (0-679-41489-4)
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- United States Essays 1952-1992: ISBN 0349105243 (0-349-10524-3)
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The Uses of Literature: Essaysby Italo Calvino, Patrick CreaghISBN 0156932504 (0-15-693250-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Uses of Literature: Essays'Book summary:One comes away from this collection of intellectually playful essays...by Italy's foremost modern novelist...inspired to go back and reread the body of his fiction in the light of his reflections on literature. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt [via]
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The Watcher and Other Storiesby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156949520 (0-15-694952-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Watcher and Other Stories'Book summary:The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italys most imaginative writer. Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us (John Updike, New Yorker).Translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]
Why Read the Classics?by Italo CalvinoISBN 0679743499 (0-679-74349-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Read the Classics?'Book summary:Why read Italo Calvino's book on the classics? Because it passes his own test for what a classic is, and its brisk prose can blast your concept of the word clean of the dusty associations that cling to it. Calvino gives 14 offbeat definitions of classic, my favorite being "a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off." His sharp essays on Conrad, Dickens, Diderot, Flaubert, Ovid, and others constitute an act of self-criticism too, a novelist's imaginative autobiography. In 1955, when rave-reviewing Robinson Crusoe, he called Daniel Defoe the "inventor of modern journalism." In 1954, he overcame his disgust with Hemingway's life "of violent tourism," coolly assessed his dry heights and sodden depths, and called himself Papa's apprentice. And the 1984 piece on Borges shows who influenced Calvino most once he'd become a master himself.
From both the American and the Argentinian, Calvino learned to be concise, and his quick sketches of books like the "unqualified masterpiece" Our Mutual Friend provide a contact high--one wants to drop everything and head straight to a library, so infectious is his enthusiasm. "How many young people will be smitten" by Stendhal's recently, brilliantly retranslated Waterloo-era adventure The Charterhouse of Parma, he writes, "recognizing it as the novel they had always wanted to read... the benchmark for all the other novels they will read in later life." Like a great teacher, Italo Calvino distills a writer's essence in a vivid phrase: money, for instance, serves as "the motive force of Balzac's narrative, the true test of feeling in Dickens; but in Mark Twain money is a game of mirrors, causing vertigo over a void." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Le Cosmicomicheby Italo CalvinoISBN 8804376295 (88-04-37629-5)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori
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Fiabe Italianeby Italo CalvinoISBN 8806323830 (88-06-32383-0)
Hardcover, Einaudi
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Fiabe Italiane: Raccolte Dalla Tradizione Popolare Durante Gli Ultimi Cento Anni E Trascritte in Lingua Dai Vari Dialettiby Italo CalvinoISBN 8804351225 (88-04-35122-5)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori
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Il Cavaliere Inesistenteby Italo CalvinoISBN 8804370866 (88-04-37086-6)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori
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Il Visconte Dimezzatoby Italo CalvinoISBN 8804370874 (88-04-37087-4)
Softcover, A. Mondadori
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Lezioni Americane: Sei Proposte per Il Prossimo Millennioby Italo CalvinoISBN 881159815X (88-11-59815-X)
Hardcover, Garzanti
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Se Una Notte D'Inverno UN Viaggiatoreby Italo CalvinoISBN 8804482001 (88-04-48200-1)
Softcover, Mondadori
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Kathapatrannalum Panketuttavarumby Santos EccikkanamISBN 0749399678 (0-7493-9967-8)
Hardcover, Karant Buks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kathapatrannalum Panketuttavarum'Book summary:A translated collection of early stories by Calvino. The earliest were written in 1945 when he was 22, and the latest date from the 50s when he was in his early 30s. Calvino's novels include "Invisible Cities" and "The Castle of Crossed Destinies". [via]
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Nuestros Antepasados/Our Ancestorsby Italo CalvinoISBN 8420630306 (84-206-3030-6)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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