Italo Calvino nejznámější citáty
„Má tvář Botticelliho Venuše, a její tělo je jedinečná symfonie.“
o Silvaně Manganové
Zdroj: [GESTORBEN - Silvana Mangano, spiegel.de, 1989-12-25, 2015-06-17, http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13499212.html]
Italo Calvino: Citáty anglicky
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand”
Italo Calvino kniha Invisible Cities
Page 10
Invisible Cities (1972)
Kontext: As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. (di quest'onda che rifluisce dai ricordi la città s'imbeve coma una spugna e si dilata). The city, however, does not tell of its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand...
“One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.”
Zdroj: Six Memos For The Next Millennium
Italo Calvino kniha Invisible Cities
Page 82.
Invisible Cities (1972)
“Gore is a man without an unconscious.”
On friend and author Gore Vidal, as quoted in "GORE VIDAL, 1925-2012 : Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer" in The New York Times (1 August 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html?pagewanted=all
"If on a winter's night a traveller". Chapter 7. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver (1981).
Italo Calvino kniha Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988) , "Lightness"
English translation: Patrick Creagh (1996).
Italo Calvino kniha Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988)
English translation: Patrick Creagh (1996).
Italo Calvino kniha Invisible Cities
Final paragraph.
Invisible Cities (1972)
Italo Calvino kniha The Path to the Nest of Spiders
The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947), Preface
English translation: Archibald Colquhoun (1957), HarperCollins.
Italo Calvino kniha The Baron in the Trees
The Baron in the Trees (1957), Chapter 16; English translation: Archibald Colquhoun (1959).
Italo Calvino kniha Cosmicomics
Pages 92-93, "How Much Shall We Bet?"
Cosmicomics (1965)
