Donald Barthelme's Reading List
A reading list Donald Barthelme composed for his students. "In no apparent order, just read them."
Author
15 Oct 1923–19 Sep 1985
Also known as Calvino, Italo
Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea.
Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian 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). Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Italo Calvino.
A reading list Donald Barthelme composed for his students. "In no apparent order, just read them."
A reader-curated list
While traveling in an eastern country, Mr Palomar bought a pair of slippers in a bazaar. Returning home, he tries to put them on: he realizes that one slipper is wider than the other and will not stay on his foot. He recalls the old vendor crouched on his hee…
Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. "But which is the stone that supports the bridge?" Kublai Khan asks. "The bridge is not supported by one stone or another," Marco answers, "but by the line of the arch they form." Kublai Khan remains silent, refl…
Astronomy is a cursed science. In some ways it seems that we’re programmed to send out our stories and spirits to live among the stars. It allows us to look up at their cold strange data and tease out meaning. But to look long enough is to understand that the…
Italo Calvino's invisible cities frames a series of surreal vignettes as a discourse between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. Ostensibly, Polo is detailing cities in the Mongol empire that Kublai would be unable to visit due to the practicalities of rule. However,…