bookshelves: dip-in-now-and-again, summer-2014, essays, e-book, lit-crit, ipad, tbr-busting-2014, italy, nonfiction, skim-through, reference Read from July 08 to August 05, 2014 Description: From the internationally-acclaimed author of some of this century's most breathtakingly original novels co...
I'm trying to find just the right word to describe these stories. Science fables isn't quite right - there isn't a moral at the end of each one. I'm torn between science myths and science legends. I think I'm leaning towards myths, in the sense of "stories that tell how something came to be." Let's ...
Little bit uneven! Loved his essay on Homer, but the Borges one was surprisingly ineffective for me.
Best read per essay as a reference for whenever you read one of the mentioned texts. What I take from it is Calvino as a well-read guy going "Dude you totally gotta read this", but I doubt "Dude: You Gotta Read This- Italo Calvino's one-page list of books you should read" would sell as well :-)
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