Books written by Italo Calvino

  • 为什么读经典

    本书包括了三十五篇绝大多数是20世纪70和80年代的文章(只有四篇是20世纪50年代的,两篇是20世纪60年代的),谈论了那些在不同程度上并由于各种不同原因而对卡尔维诺有重要意义 ...

  • Pasolini

    Séminaire dirigé par Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, avec la participation de Laura Betti, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Italo Calvino, Catherine Clément, Roger Dadoun, Jean-Paul Dollé, Alain Finkielkraut, Enrico Groppali, Pierre Mertens, ...

  • If On A Winter's Night A Traveler

    These seemingly disparate characters gradually realize their connections to each other just as they realize that something is not quite right about their world.

  • Italian Folktales

    Retells two hundred traditional Italian tales, including the stories of a fearless little man, a prince who married a frog, and a woman who lived on wind

  • Our Ancestors

    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.

  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium

    Six undelivered Norton lectures sum up the nature of literature and describe characteristics that the author would like to see bequeathed to those who live in the next millennium

  • Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

    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.

  • 未来千年文学备忘录

    未来千年文学备忘录

  • Si una noche de invierno un viajero

    Más que identificarme con el autor de cada una de las diez novelas, traté de identificarme con el lector...» Italo Calvino

  • Si una noche de invierno un viajero

    Si una noche de invierno un viajero

  • Si una noche de invierno un viajero

    La primera edición de Si una noche de invierno un viajero fue publicada por la editorial Einaudi en junio de 1979. Con motivo de la salida del libro, aparecieron en diarios y revistas numerosas entrevistas con Calvino.

  • Under the Jaguar Sun

    Three tales, each dominated by one of three senses, present a married couple touring Mexico, a tyrant made prisoner of contradictory messages, and a fashionable Parisian and a drugged rock musician impassioned by scents

  • Marcovaldo: Or, The Seasons in the City

    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 ...

  • Invisible Cities

    Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is ...

  • Le baron perché

    " Paru en 1957, Le baron perché est le plus connu des trois volets qui composent le cycle Nos ancêtres – comprenant aussi Le vicomte pourfendu et Le chevalier inexistant. À travers un roman qui assume les apparences d’un conte ...

  • The Baron in the Trees

    A young, eighteenth-century Italian nobleman defies parental authority by adopting an exclusively arboreal life, watching from his perch in the trees the passing of the Enlightenment and participating in its various delights and duties

  • The Cloven Viscount

    Now available in an independent volume for the first time, this deliciously bizarre novella of is Calvino at his most devious and winning.

  • The Watcher & Other Stories

    The Italian writer is concerned with grotesque or farcical events of the future

  • Why Read the Classics?

    A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.