The Literature Machine - format ePub

Plus de trois cents lettres choisies d’Italo Calvino dessinent le portrait complexe et attachant, inattendu et captivant de cet écrivain si bien connu et si secret. Les premières missives de la jeunesse,...

Les dix-neuf textes rassemblés dans le présent volume esquissent un portrait fragmenté d'Italo Calvino autant qu'ils racontent l'histoire de toute une génération. Car Calvino, en réfléchissant à sa propre...

À travers cinq récits autobiographiques, Italo Calvino s’interroge sur le fonctionnement mystérieux des souvenirs. Un lieu, une sensation suffisent parfois à les réveiller. Au fil des pages, l’auteur...

"– Le vote est nul! Elle a montré son bulletin ! Le président déclara qu'il n'avait rien vu, quant à lui. – Retournez dans l'isoloir, pliez bien votre bulletin, faites attention, dit-il à la vieille....

Une femme fait collection de sable. Rangeant les flacons étiquetés, elle ranime dans sa mémoire les sensations d'une plage. Ainsi l'écrivain aligne les mots, espérant découvrir dans le travail du langage...

En France, le nom d’Italo Calvino est connu essentiellement pour sa trilogie héraldique que composent Le Vicomte pourfendu, Le Baron perché et Le Chevalier inexistant, mais la diversité de son œuvre,...

En France, le nom d’Italo Calvino est connu essentiellement pour sa trilogie héraldique que composent Le Vicomte pourfendu, Le Baron perché et Le Chevalier inexistant, mais la diversité de son œuvre,...

Séminaire dirigé par Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, avec la participation de Laura Betti, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Italo Calvino, Catherine Clément, Roger Dadoun, Jean-Paul Dollé, Alain Finkielkraut,...

The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino’s important early short story collections Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection—one of...

Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War contains three stories drawing on Italo Calvino's memories of the Second World War in Italy.“This book deals both with a transition from adolescence...

“The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavors’ highest notes vibrate, juxtaposing them in modulations, in chords, and especially in dissonances...

A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. “Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary...

“Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and new.” —Publishers...

'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.'In these two stories...

Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated...

Alors qu’il se bat contre les Turcs, le vicomte Medardo di Terralba est fendu en deux par un boulet de canon. Seule la moitié droite est retrouvée, soignée et remise sur pied. De retour au château de...

Sous les remparts de Paris, Charlemagne passe en revue les troupes de l’armée de France. S’approchant du chevalier Agilulf Edme Bertrandinet des Guildivernes, il découvre avec surprise que sous l’armure...

"Il attendit la chute. Et elle advint : mais ce fut un plongeon de bas en haut. Sur le bord des rapides, en cette saison d’eau basse, des bancs de boue s’étaient accumulés, certains d’entre eux reverdis...

'Chaque récit cosmicomique s'ouvre sur un passage tiré d'un ouvrage scientifique, comme s'il était présenté par la voix off d'un savant conférencier. Mais, très vite, la conférence scientifique est interrompue...

'Les villes comme les rêves sont construites de désirs et de peurs, même si le fil de leur discours est secret, leurs règles absurdes, leurs perspectives trompeuses, et que chaque chose en cache une autre....

Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre un pré, des vagues, les planètes du Système solaire, des tortues, un sein nu, une fromagerie parisienne, un gorille albinos, une pantoufle dépareillée? Chacun de ces sujets...

"Si tout le monde bâtit, pourquoi ne pas bâtir nous aussi ?" Dans les petites villes de la Riviera, en pleines années 1950, les immeubles modernes se multiplient, au grand dam de l'ancienne bourgeoisie...

Ces "propositions pour le prochain millénaire" sont une formidable leçon de littérature. De Lucrèce à Henry James, l’auteur suggère que les chefs-d’œuvre littéraires peuvent tous être lus à travers le...

"Si l’on veut bien regarder la terre, il faut se tenir à la bonne distance." En 1767, à la suite d’une dispute avec ses parents au sujet d’un plat d’escargots qu’il refuse de manger, le jeune Cosimo...

"Un classique est un livre qui n’a jamais fini de dire ce qu’il a à dire." Pour comprendre qui nous sommes, Italo Calvino nous invite à lire ou relire les chefs-d’œuvre de la littérature universelle....

"L'origine du monde et de la vie et les perspectives de leur fin possible sont des thèmes si importants que pour parvenir à y penser on doit faire semblant de plaisanter." Dans L'oncle aquatique, il sera...

"L'un des convives amena vers lui les cartes éparses, débarrassant ainsi une bonne partie de la table ; mais il ne les rassembla pas en un seul paquet ni ne les battit ; il prit une carte, et la posa...

"Ce livre est né du désir de lecture. Je me suis mis à l'écrire en pensant aux livres que j'aimerais lire. Je me suis dit alors : la meilleure façon d'avoir ces livres c'est de les écrire. Pas un livre,...

"En quelques mots, voici le thème de ce livre : c’est l’histoire de quelqu’un qui croit travailler à la construction d’une société à travers le travail de construction d’une littérature." Recueil d’essais...

Client fin de siècle d’une parfumerie des Champs-Élysées, un homme part à la recherche d’une fragrance unique, celle d’une femme masquée entrevue dans un bal… Un couple, en voyage au Mexique, ne communie...

The most famous confidence-boosting book ever published; with sales of over 16 million copies worldwide Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie....

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible is God’s providentially appointed Word for the whole world which reveals the name of the Father as “Jehovah”, and the name of His Son, “Jesus”, in whom...

The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured...

2 March 1810 . . . Today, I fell in love.At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her—until the...

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence....

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

The books that inspired the Netflix crime series. Here you will find the following original works: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - The Hollow Needle - 813 -...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully...

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...