The Path To The Spiders Nests

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-04-04
ISBN : 0141889594
Pages : 192 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (141 users)

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Download or read book The Path to the Spiders' Nests written by Italo Calvino and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the adults' war.

The Path to the Nest of Spiders

by Italo Calvino

Publisher :
Release Date : 1976
ISBN :
Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book The Path to the Nest of Spiders written by Italo Calvino and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young orphan who joins the Italian Resistance against the occupying forces from Germany during World War II discovers some spiders nests in which he hides a gun that he steals from a German soldier.

Image, Eye and Art in Calvino

by Birgitte Grundtvig

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
ISBN : 1351563297
Pages : 316 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (351 users)

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Download or read book Image, Eye and Art in Calvino written by Birgitte Grundtvig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few recent writers have been as interested in the cross-over between texts and visual art as Italo Calvino (1923-85). Involved for most of his life in the publishing industry, he took as much interest in the visual as in the textual aspects of his own and other writers' books. In this volume twenty international Calvino experts, including Barenghi, Battistini, Belpoliti, Hofstadter, Ricci, Scarpa and others, consider the many facets of the interplay between the visual and textual in Calvinos works, from the use of colours in his fiction to the influence of cartoons, from the graphic qualities of the book covers themselves to the significance of photography and landscape in his fiction and non-fiction. The volume is appropriately illustrated with images evoked by Calvino's major texts.

Calvino and the Age of Neorealism

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1991
ISBN : 0804766576
Pages : 419 pages
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Download or read book Calvino and the Age of Neorealism written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Italo Calvino

by Beno Weiss

Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1993
ISBN : 9780872498587
Pages : 260 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (498 users)

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Download or read book Understanding Italo Calvino written by Beno Weiss and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.

Politics and the Novel During the Cold War

by David Caute

Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Release Date :
ISBN : 1412831369
Pages : 403 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (412 users)

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Download or read book Politics and the Novel During the Cold War written by David Caute and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Caute's wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War. Starting with the high hopes generated by the Spanish Civil War, Caute then explores the "god that failed" pessimism that overtook the Western political novel in the 1940s. The writers under scrutiny include Hemingway, Dos Passos, Orwell, Koestler, Malraux, Serge, Greene, de Beauvoir, and Sartre. Strikingly diff erent approaches to the burning issues of the time are found among orthodox Soviet novelists such as Sholokhov, Fadeyev, Kochetov, and Pavlenko. Soviet official culture continued to choke on modernism, formalism, satire, and allegory. In Russia and Eastern Europe dissident novelists offered contesting voices as they engaged in the fraught re-telling of life under Stalinism. Studies of Pasternak, Grossman, Chukovskaya, Wolf, Johnson, Kundera, and Vladimov lead on to Aleksandr Solhenitsyn, viewed as a uniquely gifted critic of the Soviet system. A sequence of thematic commentaries compare Western and Soviet fictional responses to the Moscow trials, terror, forced labor, and the nature of totalitarianism. The figures of Stalin and Lenin are shown to have fascinated novelists. The emergence of the New Left in the 1960s generated a new wave of fiction challenging America's global stance. Mailer, Doctorow, and Coover brought fresh literary sensibilities to bear on such iconic events as the 1967 siege of the Pentagon and the execution of the Rosenbergs. David Caute is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Henry Fellow at Harvard. A visiting professor at Columbia, NYU and University of California, Irvine, his most recent work is The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War.

Memories and Representations of War

by Elena Lamberti

Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2009-01
ISBN : 9042025212
Pages : 343 pages
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Download or read book Memories and Representations of War written by Elena Lamberti and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to the present volume approach World War I and World War II as complex and intertwined crossroads leading to the definition of the new European (and world) reality, and deeply pervading the making of the twentieth century. These scholars belong to different yet complementary areas of research ¿ history, literature, cinema, art history; they come from various national realities and discuss questions related to Italy, Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain, at times introducing a comparison between European and North American memories of the two World War experiences. These scholars are all guided by the same principle: to encourage the establishment of an interdisciplinary and trans-national dialogue in order to work out new approaches capable of integrating and acknowledging different or even opposing ways to perceive and interpret the same historical phenomenon. While assessing the way the memories of the two World Wars have been readjusted each time in relation to the evolving international historical setting and through various mediators of memory (cinema, literature, art and monuments), the various essays contribute to unveil a cultural panorama inhabited by contrasting memories and by divided memories not to emphasise divisions, but to acknowledge the ethical need for a truly shared act of reconciliation.

Modern Italian Literature

by Ann Caesar

Publisher : Polity
Release Date : 2007-09-11
ISBN : 0745628001
Pages : 244 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (745 users)

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Download or read book Modern Italian Literature written by Ann Caesar and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers 1690 to the present.

Difficult Games

by Franco Ricci

Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
ISBN : 0889206341
Pages : 143 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (889 users)

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Download or read book Difficult Games written by Franco Ricci and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ricci points out that melancholy permeates Calvino's works—even at his most playful. He suggests that if Calvino's highest merit was his sense of wonder and his urge to transform and defeat obscurantism with all the joy he could muster, one must remember that his work expressed, often painfully, the limits of human rationalism. I racconti can thus be read as a catalogue of the anxieties of both the young author and postwar Italian society.

European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism

by Martin Travers

Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2001-01-01
ISBN : 9780826447487
Pages : 372 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (447 users)

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Download or read book European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism written by Martin Travers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of European literature. Each chapter in this book is devoted to one particular school of movement from within a body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism through to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Kafka’s Italian Progeny

by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski

Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020
ISBN : 1487506309
Pages : 313 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (487 users)

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Download or read book Kafka’s Italian Progeny written by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Kafka's sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy's modern literary landscape.

Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation

by Robin Healey

Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
ISBN : 9780802008008
Pages : 648 pages
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Download or read book Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.

Wild Palms

by William Faulkner

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2013-07-05
ISBN : 1446498018
Pages : 304 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (446 users)

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Download or read book Wild Palms written by William Faulkner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Between grief and nothing I will take grief' In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit.

Reconstructing Italy

by Stephanie Zeier Pilat

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
ISBN : 1317070305
Pages : 306 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (317 users)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Italy written by Stephanie Zeier Pilat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs undertaken after WWII have often been criticized as experiments that created more social problems than they solved. The neighborhoods of Ina-Casa stand out in contrast to their contemporaries both in terms of design and outcome. Unlike modernist high-rise housing projects of the period, Ina-Casa neighborhoods are picturesque and human-scaled and incorporate local construction materials and methods resulting in a rich aesthetic diversity. And unlike many other government forays into housing undertaken during this period, the Ina-Casa plan was, on the whole, successful: the neighborhoods are still lively and cohesive communities today. This book examines what made Ina-Casa a success among so many failed housing experiments, focusing on the tenuous balance struck between the legislation governing Ina-Casa, the architects who led the Ina-Casa administration, the theory of design that guided architects working on the plan, and an analysis of the results-the neighborhoods and homes constructed. Drawing on the writings of the architects, government documents, and including brief passages from works of neorealist literature and descriptions of neorealist films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino and others, this book presents a portrait of the postwar struggle to define a post-Fascist Italy.

The Castle Of Crossed Destinies

by Italo Calvino

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-23
ISBN : 1446414213
Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book The Castle Of Crossed Destinies written by Italo Calvino and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness.

Italian Neorealism

by Charles L. Leavitt IV

Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020
ISBN : 1487507100
Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Italian Neorealism written by Charles L. Leavitt IV and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism - an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class - through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.

Italo Calvino

by McLaughlin Martin McLaughlin

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-06
ISBN : 1474470904
Pages : 240 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (474 users)

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Download or read book Italo Calvino written by McLaughlin Martin McLaughlin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first study in English of the complete writings of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino's main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analyses Calvino's intertextual links with major writers of world literature (Conrad, Stevenson, Hemingway and Borges). Postmodern elements in his texts are assessed, and a chapter on Calvino's critical essays shed important light on his creative process.