Discover 7 remarkable books under 300 pages that showcase quality and literary value. Their concise lengths highlight the authors' exceptional craftsmanship. **Timestamps:** 00:00 Short Books? 00:53 ...

ONE reason I became so interested in Leonardo and the Mona Lisa in 2019 was that I had been studying Italo Calvino’s 1985 book Six Memos for the Next Millennium, in which he quotes Douglas ...

Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of plumbing, free-floating, ...

Italo Calvino published in 1972, for Giulio Einaudi, the novel “ Invisible Cities ”, one of the most important passages in literature that makes a combinatorial and semiotic use of the ...

Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver), Invisible Cities (first published 1972; Vintage Classics, 1997) Italo Calvino (trans. Patrick Creagh), The Uses of Literature (first published 1980; Houghton ...

Italo Calvino Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics and If on a Winter's Night a Traveller and collector and translator of Italian fables.