I am Gregory, Master Poet, and I am looking for a good book to read this month. Please send me suggestions. I enjoy French Romantics (i.e. Gustave Flaubert), Italian postmodernists like Italo Calvino, and current Japanese writers like Murakami Haruki. Thx in advance.
I know of one; Italo Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveller". Do you know of any other books like this?
Trixie reading the book descriptions on amazon it sounds more like 1st person - which of course would be consistent with it being a diary. Can you confirm this?
Trixie - thanks! what I also meant to say before was that it sounds like an interesting book regardless.
Italo Calvino's 'Italian Folktale' or The Brother Grimm's 'Children's and Household Tales'?
Earlier today I saw some one as ' which is correct, the Bible or the Koran?'
I've only read Cosmiccomics, Mr. Palomar, Baron in the Trees and part of Invisible Cities - I have found this one to be a hard read because of its redundancy but will probably pick it back up in the future. Curious which one's you might recommend in the future.
“in fact, it was established that I would go through here without leaving any traces, and Instead, every minute I spend here I am leaving more tracesI leave traces if I do not speak with anyone, since I stick out as a man who won't open his mouth; I leave traces if I speak with someone because every word spoken is a word that remains and can crop up again later, with quotation marks or without. Perhaps this is why the author
piles supposition on supposition in long paragraphs without dialogue, a thick, opaque layer of lead where I may pass unnoticed, disappear.
Italo Calvino-"if on a winter's night a traveler"
Definition: Foreshadowing is the presentation in a work of literature of hints and clues that tip the reader off as to what is to come later in the work.
What do you think of this thesis:
In Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino makes scientific facts more interesting through his use of the same narrator, Qwfwq, in each short story, and incorperates his life into it, while still keeping the scientific aspect accurate
I need to write a 5-7 page paper on this, does it sound good?
pl explain the inner meaning of the chapter "thin cities 3" frm this book. any links which give its detailed description r also welcome. it'll be a great help !thnk u!
I need help. I have an outside reading assignment to read the Baron in the trees and I have absolutely no time to do it. I'm not a lazy person --- but I really do not have the time. Somebody help --- The assignment is to write a 3-5 page essay, alloting one paragraph to book summary and spending the rest of the time answering the following in relation to the book:
1. What do people owe themselves, their authorities, and their communities? How do they balance these obligations? In other words, how do people choose between personal integrity, loyalty, and belonging, when these qualities come into conflict?
2. What makes someone an outsider in a group, at least in certain ways? Is it the person's choice, the group's choice, both, or what? Although outsiders are, of course, somehow outside a group, what collective purposes do they serve? By "collective", I mean "shared by a group," though not necessarily the same group a so called "outsider" is out of.
I would appreciate any help
in particular, Italo Calvino's version, but I'm sure they're all pretty similar in this. Thanks!
a big gold star goes to whoever can say it Italian!!! :D
particularily in Italo Calvino's version, but anything works just fine.
By Beauty, I mean the girl Bellinda in Italo Calvino's version, I just need a basic answer for my Italian exam tomorrow. Thanks all! :D
Please, please contact me if you have and let me know what you thought I'm specifically looking for someone who's reading it now(for obvious reasons to those who've read it) I love it and am desperate to know if any of his other books are worth reading also. Anyone who can, help me out by recommending more books like it, leaving me your views on it or any information on the author. Cheers.
