Bøger af Calvino Italo Calvino

In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures.

The definitive edition of the cosmicomics, Italo Calvinos short stories exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe. The Complete Cosmicomics brings together all of these enchanting storiesincluding some never before translatedin one volume for the first time.

A collection of short stories compiled, edited, and introduced by Italo Calvino including works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Balzac, Gogol, Poe, and many others surveying the phenomenon of the fantastic in 19th-century European literature.

A collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was preparing to deliver at the time of his death, setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Together, these "memos" form a stirring defense of literature and an indispensable guide to Calvino's own work.

A posthumously published collection of short stories that span the breadth of Italo Calvino's career.

One of theNew York Times's Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are ';a treasure' (Los Angeles Times).

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms

A charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by "the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" (Guardian). In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and '60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current urban life. Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing for the unspoiled rural world of his imagination. Much to the continuing puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams and gives rein to his fantasies, whether it's sleeping in the great outdoors on a park bench, following a stray cat, or trying to catch wasps. Unfortunately, the results are never quite what he anticipates. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1960s, the twenty stories in Marcovaldo are alternately comic and melancholy, farce and fantasy. Throughout, Calvino's unassuming masterpiece "conveys the sensuous, tangible qualities of life" (New York Times).Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.

An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood.