Thank so much for our lecture about Italo Calvino. I have admired his writing for so long and did not know some of the facts. Invisible Cities all bear woman’s names. I read his mother was one of his most influential person in his early life and convinced him to fight against the Germans during World War II. Someone called him ''The…
Thank so much for our lecture about Italo Calvino. I have admired his writing for so long and did not know some of the facts. Invisible Cities all bear woman’s names. I read his mother was one of his most influential person in his early life and convinced him to fight against the Germans during World War II. Someone called him ''The Squirrel of the Pen’’. MY FAVORITE BOOK IS ITALIAN FOLKTALES that I continue to find new things for over many years. In the introduction- under “criteria of my writing” he wrote “I began doing what came most natural to me-that is following the memory of the things I had loved best in boyhood instead of making myself write the novel that was expected to write”. My favorite tuscan Proverb in FOLKTALES is “The tale is not beautiful if nothing is added to it-in other words its value consists of what is woven and rewoven in to it.” Perfect timing for me as I struggle to edit and slash some of my essays I wrote during the
Gloria - my fav has always been "If on a Winters Night a Traveller. . ." To me it's a unicorn in that it is the only wholly satisfying instance of that poor, maligned (perhaps justly) cul du sac called "post-modernism". If somehow, more pomo could have been like this, it might not have been such a dead end.
Thank so much for our lecture about Italo Calvino. I have admired his writing for so long and did not know some of the facts. Invisible Cities all bear woman’s names. I read his mother was one of his most influential person in his early life and convinced him to fight against the Germans during World War II. Someone called him ''The Squirrel of the Pen’’. MY FAVORITE BOOK IS ITALIAN FOLKTALES that I continue to find new things for over many years. In the introduction- under “criteria of my writing” he wrote “I began doing what came most natural to me-that is following the memory of the things I had loved best in boyhood instead of making myself write the novel that was expected to write”. My favorite tuscan Proverb in FOLKTALES is “The tale is not beautiful if nothing is added to it-in other words its value consists of what is woven and rewoven in to it.” Perfect timing for me as I struggle to edit and slash some of my essays I wrote during the
pandemic. Carry on writers -
Gloria - my fav has always been "If on a Winters Night a Traveller. . ." To me it's a unicorn in that it is the only wholly satisfying instance of that poor, maligned (perhaps justly) cul du sac called "post-modernism". If somehow, more pomo could have been like this, it might not have been such a dead end.
Thank you Stephen. I love that book and totally forgot about it. Will be reading it over week end.