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Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! π π π π π βοΈ β€οΈ
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/
Scegliere a ogni istante nel caos dei mille movimenti possibili quello e quello solo che era giusto e limpido e lieve e necessario β¦ https://cctm.website/italo-calvino-scegliere-a-ogni-istante/
Italo Calvino
da Gli amori impossibili
#italocalvino #libri #cctmwebsite #anoipiaceleggere #leggere
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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
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
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We investigate Said's "imaginative geographies" that we project onto other lands, examine Italo Calvinoβs ππ―π·πͺπ΄πͺπ£ππ¦ ππͺπ΅πͺπ¦π΄, Sherlock Holmes tours, and the film ππ’ ππ’πͺπ―π¦. Also, Bloomsday in Dublin and Iain Sinclair's ππ°π―π₯π°π― ππ³π£πͺπ΅π’π.
https://waywordsstudio.com/.../waywords.../mapping-dreams/
#frictionalreading #booksandsociety #readingforchange #bloomsday #edwardsaid #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino
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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
π³πππππππ π΅ππππ π - 7.07 π΄ππππππ π«πππππ -
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
You can get worried when you go to Audible and find only crumbs from Italo Calvino.
Have you really become "too literary"?
βBut how to establish the exact
moment in which a story begins?
Everything has already begun before...β
Calvino ~ If on a winterβs night a traveler
Photo JoΓ£o Cabral
On this burning morning, I have in mind Italo Calvinoβs If on a winterβs 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.βs Book Review β Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvinoβs Why Read the Classics? is less a tidy argument than a lively act of literary persuasion. Rather than defending canonical literature by appeal to duty or prestige, Calvino makes a subtler and more generous claim: a classic is not a relic preserved by institutions, but a work that remains unfinished in the readerβs experience. His most quoted definition captures this beautifully: βa classic is a bookβ that βnever exhausted all it has to say.β In that single [β¦]https://renminds.org/2026/07/12/t-a-e-s-book-review-why-read-the-classics-by-italo-calvino/
Las ciudades errantes π΅π https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2017/05/las-ciudades-errantes.html Te propongo dos miradas a obras que crean una realidad poΓ©tica. Con #ItaloCalvino y #Wagner
Las ciudades errantes π΅π https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2017/05/las-ciudades-errantes.html Te propongo dos miradas a obras que crean una realidad poΓ©tica. Con #ItaloCalvino y #Wagner
"Gut, du hast also in der Zeitung gelesen, daΓ 'Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht' erschienen ist, ein neues Buch von Italo Calvino, der seit Jahren keins mehr verΓΆffentlicht 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 BΓΌcher, Die Du Nicht Gelesen Hast, die dich finster anstarren von Regalen und Tischen, um dich einzuschΓΌchtern. Aber du weiΓt, daΓ du dich davon nicht abschrecken lassen darfst, denn hektarweise erstrecken sich unter ihnen die BΓΌcher, Von Deren LektΓΌre Du Absehen Kannst, die BΓΌcher, Die Zu Anderen Zwecken Als Dem Der LektΓΌre Gemacht Sind, sowie die BΓΌcher, Die Schon Gelesen Sind Bevor Man Sie AufschlΓ€gt Weil ZugehΓΆrig Zur Kategorie Des Schon Gelesenen Bevor Es Γberhaupt Geschrieben Wurde. So ΓΌberwindest du rasch den ersten Verteidigungsring, und nun ΓΌberfΓ€llt dich die Infanterie der BΓΌcher, Die Du Bestimmt Gern Lesen WΓΌrdest Wenn Du Mehrere Leben HΓ€ttest Aber Leider sind Deine Tage Eben Was Sie Sind. Mit einer raschen Bewegung schiebst du sie beiseite und stΓΌrzt dich auf die Phalanx der BΓΌcher, Die Du Irgendwann Mal Zu Lesen Gedenkst Aber Vorher MuΓt Du Noch Andere Lesen, der BΓΌcher, Die Dir Zu Teuer Sind Und Bei Denen Du Ruhig Abwarten Kannst Bis Sie Als Sonderausgabe Zu ErmΓ€Γigtem Preis Erscheinen, der BΓΌcher Dito Bis Sie In Einer Taschenbuchreihe Erscheinen, und schlieΓlich der BΓΌcher, Die Alle Bereits Gelesen Haben So DaΓ Es Beinahe Ist Als Ob Du Sie Auch Schon Gelesen HΓ€ttest. Nach erfolgreicher Abwehr all dieser Attacken dringst du vor bis unter die TΓΌrme der Festung, wo dir Widerstand leisten:
- die BΓΌcher, Die Du Schon Seit Langem Mal Lesen Wolltest,
- die BΓΌcher, Die Du Seit Jahren Vergeblich Gesucht Hast,
- die BΓΌcher, Die Etwas Behandeln Das Dich Gerade BeschΓ€ftigt,
- die BΓΌcher, Die Du FΓΌr Alle FΓ€lle Gern Griffbereit HΓ€ttest,
- die BΓΌcher, Die Du Dir Bereitlegen KΓΆnntest Zwecks Eventueller LektΓΌre Im Sommer,
- die BΓΌcher, Die Du BrΓ€uchtest Um Sie Neben Andere BΓΌcher In Dein Regal Zu Stellen,
- die BΓΌcher, Die Eine PlΓΆtzliche Heftige Und Nicht Ganz ErklΓ€rliche Neugier In Dir Wecken.
Immerhin ist es dir nun gelungen, die endlose Zahl der aufgebotenen StreitkrΓ€fte auf eine zwar noch recht beachtliche, aber doch schon in endlichen Zahlen kalkulierbare GrΓΆΓe zu reduzieren, mag auch diese relative Erleichterung noch beeintrΓ€chtigt werden durch die Hinterhalte der BΓΌcher, Die Du Vor Langer Zeit Gelesen Hast Und Nun Dringend Mal Wieder Lesen MΓΌΓtest, sowie auch der BΓΌcher, Die Du Immer Schon LΓ€ngst Gelesen Zu Haben Behauptest Hast Und Nun Dringend Mal Wirklich Lesen Solltest.
Mit raschen ZickzacksprΓΌngen 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 (fΓΌr dich oder ΓΌberhaupt), und nach Neuerscheinungen, Deren Autoren Oder Themen Noch VΓΆllig Unbekannt Sind (jedenfalls fΓΌr dich), um dann den Reiz, den sie auf dich ausΓΌben, zu bestimmen anhand deiner WΓΌnsche und BedΓΌrfnisse 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, daΓ du nach einem raschen Blick ΓΌber die in der Buchhandlung ausgestellten BΓ€nde 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 BΓΌcher ringsum geworfen (genauer gesagt, es waren die BΓΌcher, die dich ansahen mit den verwirrten Blicken von Hunden in den Gattern des stΓ€dtischen Tierheims, die einen ihrer GefΓ€hrten davonziehen sehen an der Leine des Herrchens, das ihn auszulΓΆsen gekommen ist) und bist hinausgegangen."
Las ciudades errantes π΅π https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2017/05/las-ciudades-errantes.html Te propongo dos miradas a obras que crean una realidad poΓ©tica. Con #ItaloCalvino y #Wagner
Las ciudades errantes πΌπ https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2017/05/las-ciudades-errantes.html Te propongo dos miradas a obras que crean una realidad poΓ©tica. Con #ItaloCalvino y #Wagner
Italo Calvino β¦
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 #BΓΌcher #books #speculativefiction #dokumentation
ClΓ ssics imprescindibles
Totes les cosmicΓ²miques β Italo Calvino
TraducciΓ³: Xavier Lloveras, Francesc Miravitlles
Edicions 62, Barcelona - 2011
Volum pΓ²stum que recull les 12 cosmicΓ²miques originals (traduΓ―des 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
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Alice Rohrwacher to Direct Feature Film Adaptation of Italo Calvino Classic βThe Baron in the Treesβ
#Variety #Global #News #AliceRohrwacher #ItaloCalvino #OurFilms
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/alice-rohrwacher-baron-in-the-trees-film-adaptation-1236761997/
Alice Rohrwacher to Direct Feature Film Adaptation of Italo Calvino Classic βThe Baron in the Treesβ
En los tiempos que corren, el trabajo de estas editoriales y espacios activistas es mΓ‘s importante que nunca. Por eso hay que aprender, como dice Italo Calvino, a βbuscar y saber reconocer quiΓ©n y quΓ©, en medio del infierno, no es infierno, y hacerlo durar, y darle espacioβ.
https://www.todoporhacer.org/editoriales-antiautoritarias/
#EditorialesActivistas #ItaloCalvino #ResistenciaCultural #DarEspacio #BuscarElBien
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:
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.
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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
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"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" Γ¨ limitativo.
In questo Paese e al mondo della cultura dei nostri giorni mancano geni come #ItaloCalvino.
The Adaptable Educatorβs (TEAβs) Book Review β The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvinoβs 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, Calvinoβs unforgettable narrator, who speaks as if he has survived every stage of the universe. That voice is the bookβs 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 bookβs major pleasures is the way it turns scientific fact into folklore. In βThe Distance of the Moon,β 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 βAll at One Point,β 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 βthe first quarkβ becomes, in his hands, a kind of fairy-tale opening.
What makes the book so enduring is that its wit never cancels its melancholy. Calvinoβs humour is bright, but it is always shadowed by impermanence. Species vanish, configurations dissolve, celestial arrangements change, and even memory itself proves unstable. In βThe Form of Space,β for example, an abstract spatial paradox becomes a meditation on separation, visibility, and the human need to be recognized. In βThe Dinosaurs,β 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 universeβs 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.
#BookReviews #Calvino #ItaloCalvino #language #LiteraryCriticism #literature
βItalo Calvino: A Traveller In A World Of Uncertaintyβ, 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
