Newsgroup: it.cultura.libri
Titolo: [Favore] Calvino

Un'amica mi chiede di aiutarla a reperire una "critica ragionata" alle
Lezioni americane di Calvino. A me che non ho neanche letto
Marcovaldo, per dire. 
Io sto setacciando il Web, ma nel frattempo mi rivolgo fiduciosa alle
SS. VV. che certamente saranno prodighe di segnalazioni e consigli?
Grazie.
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscalinet.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/

Grazie.
Ti sei chiesta perchč nessuno ti aiuta?
I casi sono due: o hai regalato pochi sorrisi, o hai dato poche
frustate, ricordati, il bastone e la carota...
La lezioni americane di Calvino sono una di quelle cose che ancora non
ho letto, altrimenti te l'avrei fatta io una critica ragionata, e poi
avrei chiesto di fare il controcanto a Beneforti! Ah ah ah : o )
Baciolemaniavossia
Mattč
"E sono scampato io solo per informartene"
                                  Giobbe
Per rispondermi in privato fammi nera

 wrote > SS. VV. che certamente saranno
prodighe di segnalazioni e consigli?
"Certainly no one has written so well about that gifted and nimble Italian
genius of the short prose narrative Italo Calvino as has the master himself
in these five highly personal meditations on the art of writing, originally
intended for the 1985-1986 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard before
death intervened early that same fall with a swift startling stroke. The
very titles here--'Lightness,' 'Quickness,' 'Exactitude,' 'Visibility,'
'Multiplicity'--amount to a recital of Calvino's most admired
characteristics, qualities echoed here in Patrick Creagh's sensitive
translation. A sixth--Calvino's provocative open-endedness--is ironically
provided by the absence of the unwritten final lecture, which was to have
been 'Consistency.'...While each of these literary values is distinct, each
seems at the same time to embrace the others, 'visibility' emerging from
'lightness,' 'exactitude' making 'quickness' possible, all the qualities
caught up in 'multiplicity's' net or in 'visibility's' inner eye--it's a
kind of magic act resembling the threading of the cosmos on an endless loop
through the eye of a needle--in such a way that summary images of the art of
writing, at least that practiced by Calvino himself, are to be found on
almost every page...And if I were to choose a quintessential image for the
author of such crystalline models of 'weightless gravity' as 'The
Nonexistent Knight,' 'Cosmicomics,' 'Invisible Cities' and 'If on a Winter's
Night a Traveler'--classics of this millennium that the next will surely
cherish--out of the many here, I would perhaps choose this one, the leaping
poet. It seems to me a whole aesthetic is hidden away in it, and a biography
as well."
--Robert Coover, New York Times Book Review
"A reader must delight in the way that Calvino convokes Ovid, Dante,
Shakespeare, Balzac, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams,
Musil, Borges, and also computer science, Felix the Cat, rebuses, and tarot
cards...He details his aesthetic penchants and proclivities with a lucidity
that leaves most of his critics looking fuzzy and extraneous."
--Brad Leithauser, New York Review of Books
"We read the lectures [Calvino] was to have given at Harvard--light,
graceful, self-mocking prophecies and promises made on literature's
behalf--as fragile last words...[There is] a special kind of enchantment
once we realize what Calvino is doing...[His] gift is not for seeing two
sides to a question, but for seeing how a question conceals other, endlessly
shifting and multiplying questions, and even some unlikely answers; for
seeing how a word can drift among a family of meanings...Calvino's larger
arguments are casual, but his insights are not. Or to put it another way,
Calvino's topics are less important than what they permit. They permit, for
example, a beautifully paced account of his own reading, a record of
cherished books and images, which amounts to a discreet fragment of
autobiography."
--Michael Wood, New Republic
"Calvino's lectures, his shining literary testament, crystallize the spirit
that has produced his work. Characteristically, it takes a symbol, artfully
constructed tale or character, and rotates it prismlike, so that it catches
all kinds of new lights. Calvino is as entrancing as a theorist as he is a
tale-teller; his lectures contain flights of thought that are
dazzling...Each of the many facets of Calvino's discourse is set at an angle
that seems to exist by itself; but taken together, they are their own single
and resonating crystal."
--Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"This is really a testament to the quiet authority of Calvino's manner, the
fruit of his lifelong endeavor to 'remove weight...from language' which
makes his prose so unassuming and at the same time so persuasive."
--Jonathan Coe, London Review of Books


wrote:
[snip]
Lecchino scodinzolatore! : - P
Saluto
Mateio
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 Lecchino scodinzolatore! : - P
1) Isa č una Scrittrice Inimportante
2) La paginetta copiaincollata č un mero coriandolo, rispetto a quello che
cerca lei.

cerca lei.
Vediamo se riesco a farmi scontare qualche frustata spiegandoti il:
"Paradosso di HelgaZ"
1) Isa è una cara ragazza, è la sua seconda identità (Helga) che mi
preoccupa.
2) Helga è una ragazza eccitante, è la sua seconda identità, IsaZ che
mi smorza.
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 mi smorza.
ROTFWILAT!
(Rolling on the floor with Isabella laughing and trombing)

(Rolling on the floor with Isabella laughing and trombing)
if a girl laugh while you're trombing her there's something going
wrong... 
bai bai
Meziuv
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 wrong...
Ahi, ahi, la terza persona del presente indicativo inglese... (ti dirą
sicuramente Isabella al suo ritorno dalla gita fuoriporta)!


wrote:
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Perche' mai, vedi bene che lasciare te di supplenza funziona
benissimo.
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prodighe di segnalazioni e consigli?
[snip]
Grazie, Lucio.
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Ti sei chiesta perchč nessuno ti aiuta?
Ti sei chiesto perche' la cosa preoccupa molto piu' te di me?
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