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Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver (Translator).
Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
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Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, a quarter century after The Joke was first published, and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera ‘s work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature, that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.
श्रीसितै जोडिएर आउने अरु मानिसको पनि कथा हो । सबैका केही न केही सपना छन् ।
सहरको यो भागदौडमा श्री कहीं पुग्न चाहन्छ । तर हिँड्न जान्दैन । ऊ केही बन्न चाहन्छ । तर कसरी बन्ने पत्तो पाउँदैन ।
एक मानिसको उतारचढावमा अनेक मानिस जोडिन्छन् । एक्लो – यो सहरमा अनेक सपना बोकेर रिङरोडभित्र फनफनी घुमिरहने पात्रहरूको कथा पनि हो । जो होहल्लामा त छन् तर आफूभित्र विराट् एक्लोपन बोकेर हिँडिरहेका छन् ।
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the ‘Cemetery of Lost Books’, a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ by Julian Carax.
In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar. In Herman, a master trapper is asked to clear a forest’s last ‘noxious beasts.’ Herman begins with great zeal, although in time he switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game…
Beauty, in László Krasznahorkai’s new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred – even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Buddha being restored; the Italian renaissance painter Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing to a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan’s most sacred shrine; a heron as it gracefully hunts its prey.
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नारायण वाग्ले २०४७ सालपछिको फराकिलो परिवेशमा पत्रकार बने । समाचारका लागि देशका धेरै भेग घुमे, समाजका सङ्कटहरू नियाले । कान्तिपुर दैनिकमा स्थापनाकालदेखि संलग्न उनले पुनः सक्रिय राजतन्त्रदेखि गणतन्त्र स्थापनासम्मको घटनापूर्ण अवधिमा सम्पादकीय नेतृत्व गरे ।
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