Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino – Aiuole per Queneau / Flowerbeds to Queneau

By booksofart / Italo Calvino / animal, flower, mystery, summer

Nicholas Kalmakoff (1873-1955), Greyhound with Nude Witch Forgotten flowerbeds, grassy-yellow,a gloomy murmur rouses you, allusion to other summers, blue-purple beetle,whilst uttering cryptic noumena:everything was, will be and is in a circle: therefore it will always beinto the endless oldnessand sparkle of ages, into the snake. Aiuole obliate gialle d’erba, saun cupo brusio smuovervi, allusionead altre estati, …

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Italo Calvino – Prendete la vita con leggerezza / Take life lightly

By booksofart / Italo Calvino / life, sky

Marc Chagall, Over the town, 1918 Take life lightly, for lightness is not superficiality, but a gliding over things from above, without letting things weigh on your heart. Prendete la vita con leggerezza, che leggerezza non è superficialità, ma planare sulle cose dall’alto, non avere macigni sul cuore. Go back to album – I. Calvino

Italo Calvino – Oltre il ponte / Beyond the bridge

By booksofart / Italo Calvino / hope, war

Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the front, 1866 Come on here, peach-color cheeked girl, come on here, dawn-color cheeked girl and I hope I’m able to tell you my life when I was your age. In the curfew hours, the German troops ruled the town: we are ready. They who don’t want to bow their heads …

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Italo Calvino – Il visconte dimezzato / The Cloven Viscount

By booksofart / Italo Calvino / Allegory, fight

Octavio Ocampo, Visions of Don Quixote, 1989 Some might expect that with the Viscount entire again a period of marvellous happiness would open; but obviously a whole Viscount is not enough to make all the world whole. Forse ci si aspettava che, tornato intero il visconte, s’aprisse un’epoca di felicità meravigliosa. Ma è chiaro che …

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Italo Calvino – Il castello dei destini incrociati / The Castle of Crossed Destinies

By booksofart / Italo Calvino / Allegory, city, loneliness, street

René Magritte, Pandora’s Box, 1951 Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear. Lasciatemi così. Ho fatto tutto il giro e ho capito. Il mondo si legge anche all’incontrario. Tutto è chiaro. Go back to album – Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (1923-1985)

By booksofart / Italo Calvino / realism

Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. He enter the Italian Resistance during World War II. Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death.

Italo Calvino – Aiuole per Queneau / Flowerbeds to Queneau

Italo Calvino – Prendete la vita con leggerezza / Take life lightly

Italo Calvino – Oltre il ponte / Beyond the bridge

Italo Calvino – Il visconte dimezzato / The Cloven Viscount

Italo Calvino – Il castello dei destini incrociati / The Castle of Crossed Destinies

Italo Calvino (1923-1985)

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