Italo Calvino: Frasi in inglese
Italo Calvino era scrittore italiano. Frasi in inglese.Italo Calvino libro Le città invisibili
Origine: Invisible Cities
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.”
Origine: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
Italo Calvino libro Le città invisibili
Origine: Invisible Cities
Origine: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
Origine: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Origine: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand”
Italo Calvino libro Le città invisibili
Page 10
Invisible Cities (1972)
Contesto: As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. (di quest'onda che rifluisce dai ricordi la città s'imbeve coma una spugna e si dilata). The city, however, does not tell of its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand...
“One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.”
Origine: Six Memos For The Next Millennium
Italo Calvino libro Le città invisibili
Page 82.
Invisible Cities (1972)
“Gore is a man without an unconscious.”
On friend and author Gore Vidal, as quoted in "GORE VIDAL, 1925-2012 : Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer" in The New York Times (1 August 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html?pagewanted=all
"If on a winter's night a traveller". Chapter 7. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver (1981).
Italo Calvino libro Lezioni americane
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988) , "Lightness"
English translation: Patrick Creagh (1996).
Italo Calvino libro Lezioni americane
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988)
English translation: Patrick Creagh (1996).