Mr. Palomar
A Italian Literature, Literature, Italy book. La vita d'una persona consiste in un insieme d'avvenimenti di cui l'ultimo potrebbe anche cambiare il senso di tutto l'insieme,...
Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman’s breasts, or a gorilla’s behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented by the burden of individual perception. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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- Pages: 144 pages
- ISBN: 9780156627801 / 156627809
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In seguito a una serie di disavventure intellettuali che non meritano d'essere ricordate, il signor Palomar ha deciso che la sua principale attivit sar guardare le cose dal di fuori. Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar // A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "How could I have lived without reading it!" and also, "What a pity I did not read it in my youth!" Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading. Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar // A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous onesbut because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture. Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar //
.. .. .. / .. .. =D .. This is a sprightly and accessible tour of the mind of an ordinary man on a quest to see the world in simpler, truer terms and thereby reduce his anxiety with its confusion and paradoxes. In a series of 27 vignettes, he takes his common experience from the natural and human world as a series of problems in looking and interpreting the... Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoonAnd this is the moment when it would most require our attentionSince its existence is still in doubtThe moon is the most changeable body in the visible universeAnd the most regular in its complicated habitsWho fear it is too beautiful to be truePerhaps the first rule I must impose on myself is...
