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A rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature.
An extraordinary collection of essays, forewords, articles, and interviews, The Written World and the Unwritten World displays the remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp wit of prolific Italian writer Italo Calvino as he explores the meaning of literature in a rapidly changing world. From classics to contemporary literature, from tradition to the avant-garde, Calvino masterfully explores reading, writing, and translating through careful and illuminating discussion of the works of Bakhtin, Brecht, Cortázar, Thomas Mann, Octavio Paz, Georges Perec, Salman Rushdie, Gore Vidal, and more. Drawn from Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (2002), Sulla fiaba (1988), and other uncollected essays, this volume of previously untranslated work—now rendered in English by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein—is a major statement in literary criticism.
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The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians, each of whom finds himself at a crucial juncture. Benjamin is trying to flee his overbearing father and floundering in his academic career, living hand to mouth as a critic. Wittgenstein, by contrast, has dramatically decided to divest himself of the monumental fortune he stands to inherit, in search of spiritual clarity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator butchers foreign many language quotations
- De William G. Brown en 08-31-20
De: Wolfram Eilenberger, y otros
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High Weirdness
- Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
- De: Erik Davis
- Narrado por: Erik Davis
- Duración: 20 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality - but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Weirdness
- De Amazon Customer en 09-17-20
De: Erik Davis
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Orientalism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
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5 out of 5 stars
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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Irrational Man
- A Study in Existential Philosophy
- De: William Barrett
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.
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4 out of 5 stars
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heady
- De A. Antine en 07-28-22
De: William Barrett
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: James Armstrong
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A personal and opinionated book on the Canon
- De Steffen en 07-23-12
De: Harold Bloom
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William Blake vs the World
- De: John Higgs
- Narrado por: John Higgs
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 87
A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever
- De idamae en 11-04-22
De: John Higgs
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Machiavelli
- The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
- De: Patrick Boucheron
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Tester
- De Iván en 04-09-24
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The Hedgehog and the Fox (Second Edition)
- An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
- De: Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy - editor, Michael Ignatieff - foreword
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Fox Who Tried To Be A Hedgehog
- De Rich S. en 12-14-21
De: Isaiah Berlin, y otros
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- De: Clive James
- Narrado por: Clive James
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and well narrated
- De Larbi en 05-18-08
De: Clive James
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- De: Justin E. H. Smith
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good brain workout
- De ThomasC en 04-09-19
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To Show and to Tell
- The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
- De: Phillip Lopate
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” ( Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than 40 years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction. A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone, and immense gift for storytelling.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a guide on writing personal essays
- De A. Yoshida en 08-07-13
De: Phillip Lopate
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The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis
- How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
- De: Jason M Baxter
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 123
C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the 20th century. Many know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature. What shaped the mind of this great thinker?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De andrew wilson smith en 03-08-22
De: Jason M Baxter
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Culture and Imperialism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim ( Orientalism).
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5 out of 5 stars
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BRAVO, AUDIBLE!! WE NEED MORE SAID!! REAL BOOKS!!
- De AnthonyStevens en 02-27-11
De: Edward Said
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Martin Heidegger
- De: George Steiner
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 6 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. "It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to the work of philosopher Martin Heidegger." (George Kateb, The New Republic)
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where is Heidegger on audible?!
- De Abdullah Taha en 10-14-19
De: George Steiner
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The Givenness of Things
- Essays
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly thoughts on religious things
- De Adam Shields en 01-26-16
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- De: Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Why Read the Classics?
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers of the Western canon. Here - spanning more than two millennia, from antiquity to postmodernism - are 36 immediately relevant, accessible ruminations on the writers, poets, and scientists who meant most to Calvino at different stages of his life.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 659
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 583
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 578
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 10, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The position of the feet during reading...
- De literate rose en 02-09-18
De: Italo Calvino
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Marcovaldo
- or The Seasons in the City (Translated by William Weaver)
- De: Italo Calvino, William Weaver - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams - but the results are never the expected ones.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect narrator and wonderful story
- De Drew en 12-17-17
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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The Complete Cosmicomics
- Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, & William Weaver
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator, Tim Parks - translator, y otros
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these 34 dazzling stories - collected here in one definitive anthology - relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Moments of Greatness = Worth the Read
- De Amazon Customer en 08-06-18
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Invisible Cities
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Richard Higgins
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Such a wonderful book ruined by terrible narration
- De anonymous en 08-18-23
De: Italo Calvino
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- De: Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Why Read the Classics?
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers of the Western canon. Here - spanning more than two millennia, from antiquity to postmodernism - are 36 immediately relevant, accessible ruminations on the writers, poets, and scientists who meant most to Calvino at different stages of his life.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 659
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 583
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 578
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 10, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The position of the feet during reading...
- De literate rose en 02-09-18
De: Italo Calvino
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Marcovaldo
- or The Seasons in the City (Translated by William Weaver)
- De: Italo Calvino, William Weaver - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams - but the results are never the expected ones.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect narrator and wonderful story
- De Drew en 12-17-17
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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The Complete Cosmicomics
- Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, & William Weaver
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator, Tim Parks - translator, y otros
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these 34 dazzling stories - collected here in one definitive anthology - relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Moments of Greatness = Worth the Read
- De Amazon Customer en 08-06-18
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Invisible Cities
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Richard Higgins
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Such a wonderful book ruined by terrible narration
- De anonymous en 08-18-23
De: Italo Calvino
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The Rigor of Angels
- Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: David Glass
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth—that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesn’t exist without the other. German physicist Werner Heisenberg was fighting with the scientific establishment on the meaning of the quantum realm’s absurdity when he had his own epiphany—that there is no such thing as a complete, perfect description of reality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The most ridiculous narration
- De Anonymous User en 03-07-24
De: William Egginton
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Italian Folktales
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 28 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Chosen as one of the New York Times's 10 best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At Last: Unbridled Delight
- De John en 06-12-20
De: Italo Calvino
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The Cloven Viscount
- Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures. In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bissected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears. The two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, fight a bloody duel, and achieve a miraculous resolution.
De: Italo Calvino
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Fantastic Tales
- Visionary and Everyday
- De: Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 23 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of 19th-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a 20th-century master of the speculative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected pleasure
- De Grant en 11-06-20
De: Italo Calvino
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The Path to the Spider's Nests
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Italo Calvino was only 23 when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult patrons. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans. Calvino's portrayal of these characters, seen through the eyes of a child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance but an insightful coming-of-age story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How unique to use a child’s viewpoint of war.
- De BBWrighter en 07-17-24
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Into the War
- De: Martin McLaughlin, Italo Calvino
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 2 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino's memories of his own adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight in Mussolini's army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian youth brigades. The callow narrator of these tales observes the mounting unease of a city girding itself for war, the looting of an occupied French town, and nighttime revels during a blackout. Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War is one of Calvino's only works of autobiographical fiction.
De: Martin McLaughlin, y otros