Italo Calvino

Um pais onde os chefes politicos sao decapitados ao final de seu mandato. O campones que foi condecorado porque, na guerra, matou os inimigos da patria, mas recebeu a pena de morte porque, na paz, matou o inimigo da aldeia. O homem que nunca soube dar laco no sapato. Um arquivo em que estao fichados todos os …

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

t zero is a 1967 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. The title story is based on a particularly uncertain moment in the life of a lion hunter. This second in time, t₀, is considered by the hunter against known previous seconds and hypothetical future seconds "Qfwfq" narrates the first set of …