Category Archives: Italo Calvino

Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 11: Dumézil and Charachidzé’s work on Ubykh; Lévi-Strauss and his archive; Eliade’s correspondence; Koyré’s networks; and continuing work with Dumézil’s archive

Posted on April 28, 2023 by stuartelden

My attempt with this project to keep to a broadly chronological order of working through of Georges Dumézil’s major publications (see last update) took a bit of a detour, as his 1931 book La Langue des Oubykhs led me to follow the thread … Continue reading →

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Italo Calvino on writing

Posted on April 11, 2023 by stuartelden

Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, trans. Ann Goldstein (Penguin) – two nice passages about writing, taken from the title essay. I have to say that most of the books I’ve written and those I have it … Continue reading →

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Books received – Surya, Foucault, Calvino, Blanchot, Artières, Eliade, Loyer, Bataille, Cunliffe

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

Bought in Paris or second-hand, connecting to either the new Indo-European thought project or the earlier Foucault one. I’ll just mention a couple – La bibliothèque de Georges Bataille is the illustrated catalogue to the recent sale of a part of … Continue reading →

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Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, translated by Ann Goldstein – Penguin, January 2023

Posted on January 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, translated by Ann Goldstein – Penguin, January 2023

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Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco translator William Weaver has died

Posted on November 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Crooked Timber has the news here, and links to an obituary in The Guardian.

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Italo Calvino on writing

Posted on October 28, 2012 by stuartelden

In a note appended to The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino says: I would like to add that for a certain time it was my intention to write also a third part for this book. [There follows a description … Continue reading →

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