He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.Martin L.

Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. Surprising and profound, Collection of Sand provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the magination.Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Books and paintings provoke discussions of artistic motivation, while descriptions of a meticulous Japanese garden, Trajan's column crumbling to dust or a Mexican temple smothered by the jungle lead to contemplations on space, time and civilization. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging curiosity, Calvino writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. Codice articolo AAZ9780141193748Дescrizione libro Paperback. He is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College.

Le informazioni nella sezione 'Su questo libro' possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.Дescrizione libro Paperback. offers new glimpses into the mind of the great writer while also reminding us of Calvino's insatiable curiosity ( Independent) L'autore: Le informazioni nella sezione 'Riassunto' possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.ДЄ brilliant collection that may change the way you see the world around you ( Guardian)Д¬alvino is on the high wires, on lines of thought strung out above the big international circus' Seamus Heaney ( The New York Times)ДЄ pleasure.

He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage. Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Surprising and profound, Collection of Sand provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the magination.

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