Italo Calvino

Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The lectures were originally written in Italian and translated by Patrick Creagh. The lectures were to be given …

Marcovaldo ou Les saisons en ville est une œuvre de l'auteur italien Italo Calvino, publiée pour la première fois en novembre 1963, pour le compte des éditions Einaudi. C'est un recueil de vingt nouvelles narrant la vie de Marcovaldo sur cinq années, un manœuvre, qui autrefois vivait à la campagne et désormais doit …

Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman’s breasts, or a gorilla’s behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented by the burden of individual …