Italo Calvino

Un viaggiatore, una piccola stazione, una valigia da consegnare a una misteriosa persona... Da questa premessa si possono snodare innumerevoli vicende, ma sono dieci quelle che l'autore propone in questo sorprendente e godibilissimo romanzo "È un romanzo sul piacere di leggere romanzi: protagonista è il lettore, che per dieci volte cominica a leggere un libro che per vicissitudini estranee alla sua volontà non riesce a finire. Ho dovuto dunque scrivere l'inizio di dieci romanzi d'autori immaginari, tutti in qualche modo diversi da me e diversi tra loro." (Italo Calvino)

Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore

Alishba Ali

Veronica Palmieri

Esmée Mangoensoewito

You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything.

I realize that for a long time I have tended to reduce the presence of darkness in my life. The doctors' prohibition of going out after sunset has confined me for months within the boundaries of the daytime world. But this is not all: the fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night’s.

“i am looking for Mr. Kauderer,” I said to him. He answered, “Mr. Kauderer is not here. But since the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.”

With the revolution, there are people who change so much they become inrecognizable, and other people who feel they are the same selves as before. It must be a sign that they were prepared in advance for the new times.

Novel Ideas

Long novels today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. We can rediscover the continuity of time only in novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded, a period that lasted no more than a hundred years. 

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