Research Catalog

Title

Collection of sand : essays / Italo Calvino ; translated by Martin McLaughlin.

Author

Calvino, Italo

Publication

• London : Penguin Books, 2013.
• London Penguin Books, 2013.

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Additional Authors

McLaughlin, M. L. (Martin L.)

Description

xvii, 209 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

With encyclopedic knowledge, this title writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. It provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the magination.

Subject

Italian essays

Note

• Translated from the Italian.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: COLLECTION OF SAND -- I. Exhibitions -- Explorations -- Collection of Sand -- How New the New World Was -- The Traveller in the Map -- The Museum of Wax Monsters -- The Dragon Tradition -- Before the Alphabet -- The Wonders of the Popular Press -- A Novel Inside a Painting -- Say It with Knots -- Writers Who Draw -- II. The Eye's Ray -- In Memory of Roland Barthes -- Day-flies in the Fortress -- The Pig and the Archaeologist -- The Narrative of Trajan's Column -- The Written City: Inscriptions and Graffiti -- Thinking the City: The Measure of Spaces -- The Redemption of Objects -- Light in Our Eyes -- III. Accounts of The Fantastic -- The Adventures of Three Clockmakers and Three Automata -- Fairy Geography -- The Archipelago of Imaginary Places -- Stamps from States of Mind -- The Encyclopedia of a Visionary -- IV. The Shape of Time -- Japan -- The Old Woman in the Purple Kimono -- The Obverse of the Sublime -- The Wooden Temple.
• Contents note continued: The Thousand Gardens -- The Moon Chasing the Moon -- The Sword and the Leaves -- The Pinballs of Solitude -- Eros and Discontinuity -- The Ninety-Ninth Tree -- Mexico -- The Shape of the Tree -- Time and Branches -- The Forest and the Gods -- Iran -- The Mihrab -- The Flames within the Flames.

ISBN

• 9780141193748 (pbk)
• 0141193743 (pbk)

OCLC

• 855703106
• SCSB-11766334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library