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'A beautifully translated collection of early stories by the highly regarded Italian writer. The earliest were written in 1945 when Calvino was twenty-two and the latest date from the 1950s when he was in his early thirties. The quirkiness and the grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work, the incandescence of vision, make this collection well worth reading, and for more than archaeological reasons' New York Times Book Review; 'Gleaming with resonant clarity, Calvino's fiction hits the mind's eye with the hard-edged sumptuousness of a pre-Raphaelite painting. Vividness enthrals him. Story after story in Difficult Loves sparkles with heightened responsiveness to life. Capturing the tiniest tactile sensations and the heart-pounding excitement that amplifies them, Calvino sensitises his characters down to the last straining tendon and straying finger-tip' Sunday Times
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A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work
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IN THE compartment, a lady came and sat down, tall and buxom, next to Private Tomagra. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
IN THE compartment, a lady came and sat down, tall and buxom, next to Private Tomagra. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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This collection of short stories inspires the imagination with highly original ways of focussing on the minute details of peoples lives within the space of a few pages. the collection starts with a selection of, 'The adventure of...' stories and each revolve around a person in a situation that if anyone else wrote it would seem mundane but Calvino seems to ease out beauty and sincerity within.
Within each story there is a familiarity you feel whether it is the awkwardness of the soldier or the hightened presense of people around you, when you try to sleep, as in the traveller.
The adventures of a photographer is so original that even if it was written in the postmodern today- of which with his later metafictions Calvino was a pioneer- it would still be deemed as experimental.
'Smog' and 'A plunge into real estate' are good on their own merit but it is really 'The adventure of...' stories that truly inspire. All in all a book well worth reading due to its wit and the way the stories seem to stay with you long after the book has been put down.
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