UN MISTERIO EN EL LABERINTO

Otros libros del autor

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  NUMBERS IN THE DARK

  ITALO CALVINO

  From the acclaimed, genre-bending Italian fabulist author, a posthumous collection of career-spanning stories previously unavailable in English. "Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." —from Numbers in the Dark Written between 1943 and 1984, the storie...

  $229.00

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  SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM

  ITALO CALVINO

  The celebrated author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities shares his "brilliant, original approach to literature" in these late-career lectures ( San Francisco Chronicle).   At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on his Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures to be delivered the following year at Harvard University. The six planned lectures would define the qualities ...

  $189.00

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  THE ROAD TO SAN GIOVANNI

  ITALO CALVINO

  From the Italian author, personal essays featuring his relationship with his father, his love of movies, and fighting fascism during World War II. "In each other's presence we became mute, would walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni. To my father's mind, words must serve as confirmations of things, and as signs of possession; to mine, they were foretastes ...

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  MARCOVALDO

  ITALO CALVINO

  A charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by "the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" ( The Guardian).   In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and '60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his curren...

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  MR. PALOMAR

  ITALO CALVINO

  A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities.   In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of "beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination." Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world s...

  $179.00

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  DIFFICULT LOVES

  ITALO CALVINO

  The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war "with enormous realist dignity" in this collection of " wondrous work from [his] early career" ( Kirkus, starred review).   In this short story collection, one of Italy's greatest storytellers explores the interior lives of characters just as their most cherished illusions of love are suddenly swept away. A soldier is reduced...

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