Adam, One Afternoon - Couverture souple

Calvino, Italo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 009928703X ISBN 13 : 9780099287032

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 1992

Synopsis

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

'All the creatures in these stories conspire to convey a feeling of wonder, mystery and terror of life' - Guardian

This collection of playful, deadly fables in populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous theif and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better.'

See also: Invisible Cities

Revue de presse :

"Italo Calvino's Adam, One Afternoon confirms the part he has played in revitalising the art of fiction in our time. In these beautifully translated stories, the quality of the writing emerges as clearly as do the ease and range of his inventiveness. Calvino's special gift is to link the physical and immediate with an allegorical timelessness-All the characters and creatures in these stories conspire to convey a feeling of the wonder, mystery and terror of life" (Guardian)

"Calvino's strength is his economy and subtlety. The best of his allegorical fantasies have the power of the Brothers Grimm, rollicking stories on the surface, with an underlying savagery" (Listener)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 009928703X
• ISBN 13: 9780099287032
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192