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Saggi: 1945-1985
Italian
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1995
About the author
Italo Calvino
574 books9,461 followersItalo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
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April 3, 2015
"A solução de continuidade entre as gerações depende da impossibilidade de transmitir a experiência, de fazer evitar aos outros os erros já cometidos por nós"...
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"Toda a história não é mais do que uma infinita catástrofe da qual tentamos sair o melhor possível".
"A fé é uma visão das coisas que não se vêem".
"Os leitores são os meus vampiros".
"Até mesmo para quem passou toda uma vida no mar, chega uma idade em que se deixa a embarcação".
"O autor de um livro é uma personagem fictícia que o autor real inventa para que seja autor das suas ficções".
"Toda a história não é mais do que uma infinita catástrofe da qual tentamos sair o melhor possível".
"A fé é uma visão das coisas que não se vêem".
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