Gaber diceva che la libertà non è star sopra un albero, non è neanche il volo di un moscone, non è uno spazio libero, la libertà è partecipazione.Lo sostengo pienamente.Ma è anche vero che neanche Cosimo sapeva a che ideale stava dietro nel suo perseguire un proposito che più si va avanti con la ...
Most traditional stories were past down from generation to generation in an oral tradition which made for well paced and entertaining stories. Sadly they are often retold in the hands of someone with a pace that is comparable to a three legged horse in a race, and sadly not as entertaining. (I kn...
Cinta. Satu kata yang sangat luas maknanya. Cinta dapat dideskripsikan dengan berbagai bentuk atau cara. Ketika membicarakan cinta, kita tidak melulu terpaku pada logika, tetapi perasaan, naluri, dan hasrat juga berperan di dalamnya dan membentuk "sistem" interaksi sosial antara manusia yang satu...
Let's start with the fact that Italo Calvino is one of my favorite writers of all time. His crystalline surrealism, easy tone (at least in translation), and whimsical subjects (by which I mean situations and characters, inclusive) are, to me, compelling. To say that I went into this book with a f...
Calvino, Italo (1991). Perché leggere i classici. Milano: Mondadori. 2010. ISBN 9788852015915. Pagine 332. 2,99 €Ho letto questa raccolta postuma di saggi di Italo Calvino (o meglio, l’ho “riletta”, perché i classici si rileggono sempre, non si leggono mai una prima volta) perché Maria Popova ne ...
The thought of a time outside our experience is intolerable.Had I met someone like Mr. Palomar before reading this book, I’d have easily passed him off as just another middle aged man on the verge of senility with nothing better to do with his time or at the most a mad wannabe scientist who reali...
One of the most interesting parts of this collection of short stories, for me, is the chronological organization, which allows us to observe the development of Calvino as a short story writer from the earliest included stories (which start when he was about 20) to the ones written during his 50s ...