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Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer’s error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In «Invisible Cities» Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ‘Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like «Invisible Cities», perfectly irrelevant’.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as the eleven tales from his «Difficult Loves» collection this volume also includes «Smog» and «A Plunge into Real Estate».