The only thing I’ve read recently is this novella by Italo Calvino. Calvino is just the bee’s knees as far as I’m concerned. I never cease to marvel at how he weaves a fabulously absurd tale out of the most implausible thing he can lay his hands on. Somehow his bluff always works
So this story […]
Entries Tagged as 'calvino'
book: the non-existent knight
July 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments
stars in our eyes, and grass too
June 21st, 2008 · 8 Comments
Yesterday MrSquib made his acting debut. Plucked from the audience at a puppet show, he was given the role of grass. The part required a lot of technical swaying and by all accounts MrSquib had a natural flair for the part
It’s early days yet but we are hoping he might get to be an extra […]
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book: the cloven viscount
March 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Just finished reading this novella by Italo Calvino about the Viscount Medardo of Terralba and what happens after a cannonball splits him asunder. It reminds me very much of the Baron Munchausen (I remember him riding half a horse). This is absurdist picaresque storytelling at its best
The impending sense of doom at the beginning, ably aided by his […]
