- Fiction, Social life and customs, Translations into English, Short stories
Three tales, each dominated by one of three senses, present a married couple touring Mexico, a tyrant made prisoner of contradictory messages, and a fashionable Parisian and a drugged rock musician impassioned by scents.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- First published
- January 1, 1990
- Pages
- 86
- Publisher
- Vintage, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Seuil
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Italian, German, tur, English
- ISBN
- 9780151928200
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Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de *I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,* uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. ---------- Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalis
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