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Finished app.thestorygraph.com/books/3cc7b5...

#books #ebooks #internetarchive #literature #italocalvino

Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo ...

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! 🎂 🎂 🎉 🎉 📖 ✍️ ❤️

https://
english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-14/italo-calvino-the-writer-who-shrank-the-size-of-hell.html

https://www.
nypl.org/blog/2023/10/11/where-start-italo-calvino

https://
italocalvino.org/

#italocalvino #onthisday #literature

Scegliere a ogni istante nel caos dei mille movimenti possibili quello e quello solo che era giusto e limpido e lieve e necessario … https://cctm.website/italo-calvino-scegliere-a-ogni-istante/

Italo Calvino

da Gli amori impossibili

#italocalvino #libri #cctmwebsite #anoipiaceleggere #leggere

Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/03/calvino-if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler-love/

Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/03/calvino-if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler-love/

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 7.07 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 -

How do we navigate the space between the curated tourism experience and the raw concrete of the world beneath it?

We look into our habit of cropping out infrastructure and ask whether reading the raw city makes us better travelers or something worse.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/mapping-dreams/

#frictionalreading #bookpodcast #criticalreading #bloomsday #edwardsaid #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino #invisiblecities

Tutto può cambiare, ma non la lingua che ci portiamo dentro, anzi che ci contiene dentro di sé come un mondo più esclusivo e definitivo del ventre materno.

Italo Calvino ... https://cctm.website/italo-calvino-tutto-puo-cambiare/

#italocalvino #libri #cctmwebsite #anoipiaceleggere #leggere

Reading "Into The War" (written 1952-53) by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin (2011).

The narrator has just seen Mussolini flash by on his way to inspect the Italy/France front on the first day of the war.

#Dictators #IntoTheWar #ItaloCalvino #MartinMcLaughlin #Mussolini #ilDuce #Complicity

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 7.07 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 -

We investigate Said's "imaginative geographies" that we project onto other lands, examine Italo Calvino’s 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, Sherlock Holmes tours, and the film 𝘓𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦. Also, Bloomsday in Dublin and Iain Sinclair's 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭.

https://waywordsstudio.com/.../waywords.../mapping-dreams/

#frictionalreading #booksandsociety #readingforchange #bloomsday #edwardsaid #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕 - 7.07 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 -

Do we really need to crop out the ugly stuff to make our vacation pics look fire? Does embracing the raw city make us better travelers ... or just a bunch of gawkers playing it safe?

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/mapping-dreams/

#frictionalreading #bookpodcast #travelogues #literature #podcast #books #reading #bloomsday #edwardsaid #davidharvey #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino #invisiblecities

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 7.07 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 -

How do we navigate the space between the curated tourism experience and the raw concrete of the world beneath it?

We look into our habit of cropping out infrastructure and ask whether reading the raw city makes us better travelers or something worse.

https://waywordsstudio.com/.../waywords.../mapping-dreams/

#frictionalreading #bookpodcast #criticalreading #literature #books #reading #bloomsday #edwardsaid #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino

Il bottone di Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas, 1923 – Siena, 1985)

Il bottone, al tramonto, raccoglie le ultime luci sulla sua superficie liscia ma non può trattenerle dallo scorrere, giù per la lieve convessità, verso il bordo rilevato dove un’ala d’ombra sta in attesa, pronta a inghiottirle ... https://cctm.website/italo-calvino-il-bottone/

da Quattro studi dal vero alla maniera di Domenico Gnoli

#italocalvino #domenicognoli #cctmwebsite #leggere #arte

You can get worried when you go to Audible and find only crumbs from Italo Calvino.

Have you really become "too literary"?

#Audible #Literature #ItaloCalvino #ConsumingIn2026

“But how to establish the exact
moment in which a story begins?
Everything has already begun before...”

Calvino ~ If on a winter’s night a traveler

Photo João Cabral

#ItaloCalvino

"...around absence
is constructed what exists".

Italo Calvino
The Castle of Crossed Destinies

Photo: Alan Schaller

#Literatur #ItaloCalvino #Fotografie #AK

Since I am I, the game is done,
I have a finite number of possibilities
and that's all.

Italo Calvino, Ti con zero

Photo Kathrin Federer

#photography #ItaloCalvino #Literature #AK

On this burning morning, I have in mind Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler ~
a novel made only of new beginnings ~
to overcome the fear of everything that ends.

#philosophy #literature #psychoanalysis #ItaloCalvino #time #humanities #reading

T.A.E.’s Book Review – Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino

https://renminds.org/2026/07/12/t-a-e-s-book-review-why-read-the-classics-by-italo-calvino/

Las ciudades errantes 🎵📕 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2017/05/las-ciudades-errantes.html Te propongo dos miradas a obras que crean una realidad poética. Con #ItaloCalvino y #Wagner

Las ciudades errantes 🎵🎭 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2017/05/las-ciudades-errantes.html Te propongo dos miradas a obras que crean una realidad poética. Con #ItaloCalvino y #Wagner

"Gut, du hast also in der Zeitung gelesen, daß 'Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht' erschienen ist, ein neues Buch von Italo Calvino, der seit Jahren keins mehr veröffentlicht hat. Du bist in eine Buchhandlung gegangen und hast dir den Band gekauft. Recht so.

Schon im Schaufenster hast du den Umschlag mit dem gesuchten Titel entdeckt. Der Blickspur folgend bist du im Laden vorgedrungen, mitten durch die dichten Reihen der Bücher, Die Du Nicht Gelesen Hast, die dich finster anstarren von Regalen und Tischen, um dich einzuschüchtern. Aber du weißt, daß du dich davon nicht abschrecken lassen darfst, denn hektarweise erstrecken sich unter ihnen die Bücher, Von Deren Lektüre Du Absehen Kannst, die Bücher, Die Zu Anderen Zwecken Als Dem Der Lektüre Gemacht Sind, sowie die Bücher, Die Schon Gelesen Sind Bevor Man Sie Aufschlägt Weil Zugehörig Zur Kategorie Des Schon Gelesenen Bevor Es Überhaupt Geschrieben Wurde. So überwindest du rasch den ersten Verteidigungsring, und nun überfällt dich die Infanterie der Bücher, Die Du Bestimmt Gern Lesen Würdest Wenn Du Mehrere Leben Hättest Aber Leider sind Deine Tage Eben Was Sie Sind. Mit einer raschen Bewegung schiebst du sie beiseite und stürzt dich auf die Phalanx der Bücher, Die Du Irgendwann Mal Zu Lesen Gedenkst Aber Vorher Mußt Du Noch Andere Lesen, der Bücher, Die Dir Zu Teuer Sind Und Bei Denen Du Ruhig Abwarten Kannst Bis Sie Als Sonderausgabe Zu Ermäßigtem Preis Erscheinen, der Bücher Dito Bis Sie In Einer Taschenbuchreihe Erscheinen, und schließlich der Bücher, Die Alle Bereits Gelesen Haben So Daß Es Beinahe Ist Als Ob Du Sie Auch Schon Gelesen Hättest. Nach erfolgreicher Abwehr all dieser Attacken dringst du vor bis unter die Türme der Festung, wo dir Widerstand leisten:
- die Bücher, Die Du Schon Seit Langem Mal Lesen Wolltest,
- die Bücher, Die Du Seit Jahren Vergeblich Gesucht Hast,
- die Bücher, Die Etwas Behandeln Das Dich Gerade Beschäftigt,
- die Bücher, Die Du Für Alle Fälle Gern Griffbereit Hättest,
- die Bücher, Die Du Dir Bereitlegen Könntest Zwecks Eventueller Lektüre Im Sommer,
- die Bücher, Die Du Bräuchtest Um Sie Neben Andere Bücher In Dein Regal Zu Stellen,
- die Bücher, Die Eine Plötzliche Heftige Und Nicht Ganz Erklärliche Neugier In Dir Wecken.
Immerhin ist es dir nun gelungen, die endlose Zahl der aufgebotenen Streitkräfte auf eine zwar noch recht beachtliche, aber doch schon in endlichen Zahlen kalkulierbare Größe zu reduzieren, mag auch diese relative Erleichterung noch beeinträchtigt werden durch die Hinterhalte der Bücher, Die Du Vor Langer Zeit Gelesen Hast Und Nun Dringend Mal Wieder Lesen Müßtest, sowie auch der Bücher, Die Du Immer Schon Längst Gelesen Zu Haben Behauptest Hast Und Nun Dringend Mal Wirklich Lesen Solltest.
Mit raschen Zickzacksprüngen entgehst du ihnen und springst mitten hinein in die Zitadelle der Neuerscheinungen, Deren Autoren Oder Themen Dich Irgendwie Reizen. Auch innerhalb dieser Festung kannst du Breschen in die Front der Verteidiger schlagen, indem du sie zerteilst nach Neuerscheinungen, Deren Autoren Oder Themen Nicht Neu Sind (für dich oder überhaupt), und nach Neuerscheinungen, Deren Autoren Oder Themen Noch Völlig Unbekannt Sind (jedenfalls für dich), um dann den Reiz, den sie auf dich ausüben, zu bestimmen anhand deiner Wünsche und Bedürfnisse nach Neuem und nach Nicht-Neuem (nach Neuem, das du im Nicht-Neuen suchst, und nach Nicht-Neuem, das du im Neuen suchst).

Dies alles nur, um zu sagen, daß du nach einem raschen Blick über die in der Buchhandlung ausgestellten Bände schnurstracks zu einem Stapel druckfrischer Exemplare von 'Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht' geeilt bist, eins davon genommen und zur Kasse getragen hast, um dir ein Eigentumsrecht darauf zuerkennen zu lassen.

Du hast noch einen verwirrten Blick auf die Bücher ringsum geworfen (genauer gesagt, es waren die Bücher, die dich ansahen mit den verwirrten Blicken von Hunden in den Gattern des städtischen Tierheims, die einen ihrer Gefährten davonziehen sehen an der Leine des Herrchens, das ihn auszulösen gekommen ist) und bist hinausgegangen."

#Bookstodon #ItaloCalvino #SUB

Las ciudades errantes 🎵📕 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2017/05/las-ciudades-errantes.html Te propongo dos miradas a obras que crean una realidad poética. Con #ItaloCalvino y #Wagner

Las ciudades errantes 🎼📕 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2017/05/las-ciudades-errantes.html Te propongo dos miradas a obras que crean una realidad poética. Con #ItaloCalvino y #Wagner

Italo Calvino …

Italo Calvino: Schreiben gegen die Schwere der Welt | Doku HD Reupload | ARTE

Dokumentation von Duccio Chiarini (I/F 2023, 52 Min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNbgDJvNP9E

#ItaloCalvino #Phantastik #Lieblingsautoren #Bücher #books #speculativefiction #dokumentation

Clàssics imprescindibles

Totes les cosmicòmiques – Italo Calvino
Traducció: Xavier Lloveras, Francesc Miravitlles
Edicions 62, Barcelona - 2011

Volum pòstum que recull les 12 cosmicòmiques originals (traduïdes per Miravitlles) i totes les que va anar escrivint posteriorment i apareixien en volums dispersos.
https://www.grup62.cat/llibre-totes-les-cosmicomiques/94368
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino
(1/2)

#ClàssicsImprescindibles #ItaloCalvino

Cantacronache : How a group of young Italians created an international scandal with their trip to Spain in 1961 to record anti-Franco songs | International

Seven young Italians — five men and two women between the ages of 20 and 30, with a…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #CamiloJoséCela #CarloLevi #FranciscoFranco #ItaloCalvino #JoséAgustínGoytisolo #ManuelFragaIribarne #MiguelSánchez-Mazas #UmbertoEco
https://www.europesays.com/spain/32156/

Cantacronache : How a group of young Italians created an international scandal with their trip to Spain in 1961 to record anti-Franco songs | International

Seven young Italians — five men and two women between the ages of 20 and 30, with a…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #CamiloJoséCela #CarloLevi #FranciscoFranco #ItaloCalvino #JoséAgustínGoytisolo #ManuelFragaIribarne #MiguelSánchez-Mazas #UmbertoEco
https://www.europesays.com/italy/21046/

https://www.europesays.com/it/515346/ Sì, è proprio il Giuntoli della telenovela Koopmeiners #affare #AffareKoopmeiners #atalanta #attori #AttoriScambiano #AttoriScambianoParti #bersaglio #Calcio #CalcioMelania #CalcioMelaniaInvisibili #calvino #cristiano #direttore #DirettoreSportivo #Entertainment #giuntoli #Intrattenimento #invisibili #InvisibiliItalo #InvisibiliItaloCalvino #IT #Italia #italo #ItaloCalvino #Italy #juventus #koopmeiners #melania #MelaniaInvisibili #sportivo #tv

https://www.europesays.com/ie/508538/ Alice Rohrwacher to Direct ‘The Baron in the Trees’ Film Adaptation #AliceRohrwacher #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #ItaloCalvino #Movies #OurFilms

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct Feature Film Adaptation of Italo Calvino Classic ‘The Baron in the Trees’
#Variety #Global #News #AliceRohrwacher #ItaloCalvino #OurFilms

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/alice-rohrwacher-baron-in-the-trees-film-adaptation-1236761997/

#lapattumieragradita #italocalvino #lapoubelleagreee #scrivere #leggere #letteratura #convivenza

the writing clubs have proved to be such a source of joy and a sense of honing a skill that i care about deeply ^^

here is a fragment written at the most recent writing club, where we read through fragments of Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" and decided to copy this aesthetic:

https://catileptic.tech/posts/writing-exercise-micro-delft/

#microfiction #writing #writingclub #delft #italocalvino

A chapter, from Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"

Urbanism
Erotism

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Trading Cities
2

In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping.

A girl comes along, twirling a parasol on her shoulder, and twirling slightly also her rounded hips. A woman in black comes along, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling. A tattooed giant comes along; a young man with white hair; a female dwarf; two girls, twins, dressed in coral. Something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with another and draw arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on to the scene: a blind man with a cheetah on a leash, a courtesan with an ostrich-plume fan, an ephebe, a Fat Woman. And thus, when some people happen to find themselves together, taking shelter from the rain under an arcade, or crowding beneath an awning of the bazaar, or stopping to listen to the band in the square, meetings, seductions, copulations, orgies are consummated among them without a word exchanged, without a finger touching anything, almost without an eye raised.

A voluptuous vibration constantly stirs Chloe, the most chaste of cities. If men and women began to live their ephemeral dreams, every phantom would become a person with whom to begin a story of pursuits, pretenses, misunderstandings, clashes, oppressions, and the carousel of fantasies would stop.

--

#italocalvino #invisiblecities #book #bookquote

Italo Calvino zum 100.

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/112302-000-A/italo-calvino-der-schriftsteller-auf-den-baeumen/

#ItaloCalvino

An illustration of Ottavia, Invisible Cities.

https://asupala.me/2026/05/03/entry-26-ottavia-invisible-cities-series-03/

#invisiblecities #architecture #city #italocalvino #fantasy #ottavia

#BuonaDomenica #Buongiorno

📚
"Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore" di italo Calvino, LI + 304 pagine, Mondadori, edizione 1994.

#SeUnaNottedinvernoUnViaggiatore

Era da molto nella mia lista di lettura.
Un romanzo che definire "originale" è limitativo.
In questo Paese e al mondo della cultura dei nostri giorni mancano geni come #ItaloCalvino.

#libri #leggere #cosaLeggoNelWeekend #19aprile

The Adaptable Educator’s (TEA’s) Book Review – The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino’s The Complete Cosmicomics is one of the most playful achievements of modern literature: a book that treats cosmology not as a field of cold explanation but as a theatre of longing, memory, chance, and comic self-invention. The author takes the grand, impersonal language of science and bends it into something intimate and strangely tender. Galaxies, tides, molecules, and extinct species become the raw material for stories that feel at once prehistoric and deeply human.

At the centre of the book is Qfwfq, Calvino’s unforgettable narrator, who speaks as if he has survived every stage of the universe. That voice is the book’s greatest invention. Qfwfq is not merely a character; he is a consciousness stretched across time, one that remembers impossible things with the casual certainty of autobiography. The writing uses this fantastical perspective to make the cosmos feel inhabited by desire. Even in stories built from scientific premises, what matters is not explanation but feeling: jealousy, nostalgia, curiosity, rivalry, attraction. The universe is never abstract for long. It becomes a stage for emotional comedy and metaphysical yearning.

One of the book’s major pleasures is the way it turns scientific fact into folklore. In “The Distance of the Moon,” the moon is not a remote body in space but a reachable, almost touchable presence, and the story transforms astronomy into a myth of pursuit and loss. In “All at One Point,” the universe begins in collapse and intimacy before expanding into separation; the comic image of everyone crowded together captures both cosmological theory and the human ache for closeness. Calvino is brilliant at finding the hidden lyricism in science, and at exposing the absurdity lurking beneath all systems of order. A phrase like “the first quark” becomes, in his hands, a kind of fairy-tale opening.

What makes the book so enduring is that its wit never cancels its melancholy. Calvino’s humour is bright, but it is always shadowed by impermanence. Species vanish, configurations dissolve, celestial arrangements change, and even memory itself proves unstable. In “The Form of Space,” for example, an abstract spatial paradox becomes a meditation on separation, visibility, and the human need to be recognized. In “The Dinosaurs,” the return of the extinct creature is not triumphant but uneasy, as though survival itself were a burden of estrangement. He repeatedly suggests that history is not progress but mutation, and that identity is always provisional.

Stylistically, the book is astonishingly elegant. It is written with crystalline clarity, but its clarity is never plainness. The author can move from comic detail to philosophical implication in a single sentence, and he does so without ever sounding heavy-handed. The prose is light on its feet, yet it carries enormous intellectual and emotional weight. That balance is the secret of the collection: it is simultaneously whimsical and exacting, imaginative and disciplined, airy and exact.

As a whole, The Complete Cosmicomics reads like a bestiary of the universe’s first emotions. It is a book about how matter becomes memory, how space becomes longing, and how the vastness of existence can still be narrated through the needs of a single voice. Calvino reminds us that the universe is not only something to be measured; it is something to be imagined. And in his hands, imagination becomes a form of knowledge.

It is a rare book that can make the birth of the cosmos feel both scientifically vast and heartbreakingly personal. Calvino does that again and again, and the result is one of the most original works of twentieth-century literature.

“Italo Calvino: A Traveller In A World Of Uncertainty”, History Today (https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725403

#Books #ItaloCalvino #Calvino #Fiction #Literature #Time #Uncertainty #Communism #Fascism

Quando la Fucina Fibonacci andò sulla #Luna https://peertube.uno/w/8NautdFpUCfZH9Fu4Q9JuQ

@spettacoli

#SmashingPumpkins #ItaloCalvino #GeorgesMelies #moon #teatro #music

Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty

#HackerNews #ItaloCalvino #Traveller #Uncertainty #Literature #HistoryToday

If the present, with its conflicts and uncertainties, is impossible to know, asks #ItaloCalvino, how can we hope to understand the past?

🔓 The new Portrait of an Author is free for 7 days

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty