The Nonexistent Knight The Cloven Viscount
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Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2012-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544133501 |
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An empty suit of armor is the hero of this witty novella set in the Early Middle Ages by the acclaimed author of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. As a paladin in the court of Charlemagne, Agilulf is the very embodiment of valor and dedication to duty—but he is also a gleaming white suit of armor with nothing inside it. While he has stolen the heart of the female knight Bradamante, she in turn is loved by the young adventurer Rambaldo. When a challenge to Agilulf’s honor sends him on an expedition through France, England, and North Africa, Brandamante and Ramaldo follow close behind. Narrated by a nun with her own secrets to keep, this beloved novella explores the absurdities of medieval knighthood in a series of plot twists that are “executed with brilliance and brio” (Chicago Tribune).
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
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"Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. Bravura pieces... executed with brilliance and brio."--Goodreads
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544231937 |
Download The Complete Cosmicomics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a “cosmic know-it-all” with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Relating complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world, they are an indelible and delightful literary achievement. Originally published in Italian in three separate volumes—including the Asti d’Appello Prize-winning first volume, Cosmicomics—these thirty-four dazzling stories are collected here in one definitive English-language anthology. “Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I—or anyone, really—can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” —Colin Dwyer, NPR
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156659758 |
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Recounts the chivalrous exploits of an empty suit of armor and the separate halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Beno Weiss |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780872498587 |
Download Understanding Italo Calvino Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544133404 |
Download If On A Winter's Night A Traveler Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives. "Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses." —New York Times Review of Books
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2010-12-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1446419673 |
Download Our Ancestors Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master storyteller. 'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544152093 |
Download Fantastic Tales Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Twenty-six fantasy tales from the 19th century, tracing the genre from its roots in German romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James. The editor, who prefaces each story, analyzes the resurgence of the fantastic in our day.
Author | : Dominique Goblet |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1681370484 |
Download Pretending Is Lying Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Now in paperback, a “tender, affecting” (NYTBR) memoir unlike any other, and the first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet. In a series of dazzling fragments—skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black-and-white—Dominique Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents. The result is an unnerving comedy of paternal dysfunction, an achingly ambivalent love story (with asides on Thomas Pynchon and the Beach Boys), and a searing account of childhood trauma—a dizzying, unforgettable view of a life in progress and a tour de force of the art of comics.