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Collection of Sand - Italo Calvino

Collection of Sand - Italo Calvino

Brand: Penguin Books   |   Status: Còn hàng
350.000₫

"A collection of essays that shows the same attention to detail and love of fabulist and yarn-spinning as his finest stories. Journalistic pieces, witty observations, travel diaries, these are the sorts of things that you and I might write, but because it's Calvino writing them, it's orders of magnitude better. While it wouldn't be the best introduction to his work, it succeeds magnificently as fan service. After you've made your way through his better novels, go out and pick up Collection of Sand." - Goodreads reviewer

  • Mô tả

Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging curiosity, Calvino writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. Books and paintings provoke discussions of artistic motivation, while descriptions of a meticulous Japanese garden, Trajan's column crumbling to dust or a Mexican temple smothered by the jungle lead to contemplations on space, time and civilization.

Surprising and profound, Collection of Sand provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the imagination.