Numbers in the Dark

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:Italo Calvino

页数:288

译者:Tim Parks

出版时间:2009-5-28

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141189741

具体描述

"Numbers in the Dark" is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts; and dialogues with Henry Ford, a Neanderthal and the gloomy, overthrown Montezuma!

作者简介

伊塔洛•卡尔维诺(Italo Calvino,1923—1985)

意大利当代最具有世界影响的作家。于1985年获得诺贝尔文学提名，却因于当年猝然去世而与该奖失之交臂。但其人其作早已在意大利文学界乃至世界文学界产生巨大影响。

卡尔维诺从事文学创作40年，一直尝试着用各种手法表现当代人的生活和心灵。他的作品融现实主义、超现实主义与后现代主义于一身，以丰富的手法、奇特的角度构造超乎想像的、富有浓厚童话意味的故事，深为当代作家推崇，并给他们带来深刻影响。《我们的祖先》三部曲、《命运交叉的城堡》、《帕洛马尔》等达到惊人的艺术高度和思想深度。《意大利童话》最大限度地保持了意大利民间口头故事的原貌，艺术价值和学术价值兼具，是再现意大利“民族记忆”之深厚积淀的不可多得的作品。《美国讲稿》是卡尔维诺对自己近40年小说创作实践的丰富经验进行的系统回顾和理论上的总结与阐发。他的作品以特有的方式反映了时代，更超越了时代。

读后感

本书把卡尔维诺两个创作期的短篇汇编成册，无论是其最早的青涩阶段，还是后来的成熟时代，其作品中散发出想象和寓意的夺目光芒，实在令人情不自禁地想要阐释。 《蒙特祖玛》通过与阿兹特克帝国末代君主的对话，指出西方以外的文明并不可征服。《尼安德特人》中现代文明习惯于分...

卡爾維諾早期的寓言小說比較簡單，《在你說「喂」之前》中所收錄的短篇小說，跟後期的一些作品相比，顯然是較容易進入的。尤其是那些因為戰爭而寫的寓言故事，黑色幽默的調子把世界各樣荒誕而有人從之的事情一一展示。〈知足〉、〈害群之馬〉、〈軍隊迷途記〉、〈圖書館裡的將...  

用户评价

妈呀终于读完了，有几篇真的很神，超神，但是总体来说阅读过程很艰难……凡人如我跟不上我们卡尔维诺大大思维跳跃的脚步（。

Cosmological parts deserve respected likewise calculated designed obscure labyrinthes in calvino's other stories,nevertheless you exactly consider them boring. Among the writer's endeavor and tact, there was a long period. You need to detect his exploring and subtle balance between his intelligence and readability. All in all,I can recognize him.

Cosmological parts deserve respected likewise calculated designed obscure labyrinthes in calvino's other stories,nevertheless you exactly consider them boring. Among the writer's endeavor and tact, there was a long period. You need to detect his exploring and subtle balance between his intelligence and readability. All in all,I can recognize him.

Cosmological parts deserve respected likewise calculated designed obscure labyrinthes in calvino's other stories,nevertheless you exactly consider them boring. Among the writer's endeavor and tact, there was a long period. You need to detect his exploring and subtle balance between his intelligence and readability. All in all,I can recognize him.

Cosmological parts deserve respected likewise calculated designed obscure labyrinthes in calvino's other stories,nevertheless you exactly consider them boring. Among the writer's endeavor and tact, there was a long period. You need to detect his exploring and subtle balance between his intelligence and readability. All in all,I can recognize him.