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The Watcher and Other Stories
This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times). Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fiction writers and one of the twentieth century’s greatest fabulists. This collection of three stories showcases his range and virtuosity. In the title story, an Italian Communist poll watcher is stationed at a hospital in Turin, where nuns guide the hands of invalids to their preferred candidate in a special election. In “Smog,” a city’s cooperative laundry facility reveals a harbinger of social purification. And in “The Argentine Ant,” the citizens of a provincial seaside town struggle against a government-controlled infestation. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us.” —John Updike, New Yorker
The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction
It is gradually being acknowledged that the Arabic story-collection Thousand and One Nights has had a major influence on European and world literature. This study analyses the influence of Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, on 20th-century prose from all over the world. Works of approximately forty authors are examined: those who were crucial to the development of the main currents in 20th-century fiction, such as modernism, magical realism and post-modernism. The book contains six thematic sections divided into chapters discussing two or three authors/works, each from a narratological perspective and supplemented by references to the cultural and literary context. It is shown how Thousand and One Nights became deeply rooted in modern world literature especially in phases of renewal and experiment.
Mr Palomar
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh. 'Beautifully nimble, solitary feats of imagination' Seamus Heaney 'Beguiling' Time
Zitrönchen
Oma berichtet Mücke von dem Brief, den sie erhalten hat. Italo wird für ganze zwei Wochen zu Besuch kommen und Mücke plant bereits seine ersten Reitstunden auf Bruschettino. Aber wird der kleine Rappe ihn überhaupt wiedererkennen? Während Luis mit seiner Mutter nach Spanien reist, warten Seba, Bent und die Mädchen aufgeregt auf die Geburt von Trudes Fohlen. Jo nimmt mit Zitrönchen an einem Lehrgang des Landesverbandes teil und ergattert den letzten Platz im Trainingscamp. Aber kann sie sich wirklich darüber freuen? Alles scheint ohne Komplikationen zu verlaufen, bis ein Hilferuf aus Spanien kommt, woraufhin Jo sofort ihre Sachen packt. Samantha verhindert die überstürzte Abreise je...
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The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border
Focusing on the history of the "problem of Trieste" and the Italo-Yugoslav border, Glenda Sluga provides a framework for writing the history of places from a perspective sensitive to the politics of identity—whether national, ethnic, or gender. For most of this century, Trieste, a port city on the northeastern Adriatic, has been at the center of key European cultural and political questions. Scholars have commonly attributed Trieste's turbulent past to the intrinsic differences between local Italian and Slav populations. Ways of knowing Trieste and Triestines, and the ways in which that population could know itself, have been couched in narratives that reiterate the antithetical difference...
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