Szerző Italo Calvino
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it.But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it…
The first complete English-language edition of Calvino's early short story collection. These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving. Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid,…
Nejznamenitější cestovatel všech dob, Marco Polo, popisuje Kublaj chánovi krajiny a města, která nejsou na žádné mapě, jejichž znaky a tvary, věže, mosty, domy, ulice, sociální a společenské struktury jsou nám však přesto povědomé, jako by sumarizovaly…
V povídkách souboru T nula Italo Calvino rozvíjí tematiku i formální strategie iniciované Kosmickými groteskami a dokládá, že experimentální verva ho rozhodně neopustila. Calvino vždy přikládal velkou váhu dialogu literatury a vědy a byl přesvědčen,…
A collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature - from enchantments and horrors to subtler, psychological terrors. It includes Hoffmann's "The Sandman", Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Dickens' "The Signal-Man",…
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as…
A couple on a journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation…
Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,…
Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author,…
A Földről, a Holdról, galaktikákról, a térben-időben irdatlan világmindenségről mesél nekünk az öreg Qfwfq. De Qfwfq autón jár, örül, búsul, szeret, és a verandán üldögél, épp amikor a püffedő, dagadó, puha Hold a szikrázó, csupa üveg, csupa acél Földre…