Italo Calvino

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

324

Total plays

2,411

Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender f

via Last.fm · Italo Calvino

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. MicroRNA Gene Expression Deregulation in Human Breast Cancer

   · 2005 · cited 3,208x

2. Recommendations on Angiographic Revascularization Grading Standards for Acute Ischemic Stroke

   · 2013 · cited 1,589x

3. Consensus statement on the definition of orthostatic hypotension, neurally mediated syncope and the postural tachycardia syndrome

   · 2011 · cited 1,456x

4. Optimal Control and Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations

   · 1997 · cited 1,368x

5. Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

   · 2013 · cited 1,024x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

• “In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogeneous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of the written language.”
• “Gore is a man without an unconscious.”
• “«What makes love making and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space»”
• “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...”
• “With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
• “"Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me." Polo answers: "Without stones there is no arch."”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Official website

www.italocalvino.org

Image

Italo-Calvino.jpg

via Wikidata · CC0