卡尔维诺：收藏沙子的旅人

基本信息

Series:Penguin Modern Classics

Format:Paperback / softback 240 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Classics

ISBN:9780141193748

Published:1 Aug 2013

Weight:184g

Dimensions:128 x 195 x 14 (mm)

页面数据仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

★ 卡尔维诺×非虚构写作，卡尔维诺怎样用想象力驾驭非虚构写作？

★ 卡尔维诺生前出版的关山之作。

★ 天马行空的想象和独辟蹊径的视角，展现仅属于卡尔维诺的的观看之道。

想让卡尔维诺带着你，去蓬皮杜中心看展览，去莎士比亚书店挑新书，或者去日本、墨西哥和伊朗旅行吗？来读《收藏沙子的旅人》吧。

《收藏沙子的旅人》是卡尔维诺看展、读书、旅行的随笔集。他以天马行空的方式，告诉我们看展时该怎样屏气凝神又神游天外，读书时该怎样旁征博引又独辟蹊径，旅行时该怎样入乡随俗又超然世外。卡尔维诺用无尽的想象力超越了这些文章本来的局限，既从沙子收藏中看见旅人走过的世界，也在读书和旅行中看见大千万象的存在之核。

阅读《收藏沙子的旅人》，就像进入卡尔维诺异想天开而又激情澎湃的大脑……这部文集能够改变你观看世界的方法。

——P.D.史密斯，《卫报》

This “brilliant collection of essays” and travelogues by the celebrated author of Invisible Cities “may change the way you see the world around you” (The Guardian, UK).

Italo Calvino’s boundless curiosity and ingenious imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, his last collection of new works published during his lifetime. Delving into the delights of the visual world—both in art and travel—the subjects of these 38 essays range from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens. In Calvino’s words, this collection is “a diary of travels, of course, but also of feelings, states of mind, moods…The fascination of a collection lies just as much in what it reveals as in what it conceals of the secret urge that led to its creation” (from Collection of Sand).

Never before translated into English, Collection of Sand is an incisive and often surprising meditation on observation and knowledge, “beautifully translated by Martin McLaughlin” (The Guardian, UK).

作者简介

关于生平，卡尔维诺写道：“我仍然属于和克罗齐一样的人，认为一个作者只有作品有价值，因此我不提供传记资料。我会告诉你你想知道的东西。但我从来不会告诉你真实。”

1923年10月15日生于古巴，1985年9月19日在滨海别墅猝然离世，而与当年的诺贝尔文学奖失之交臂。

父母都是热带植物学家，“我的家庭中只有科学研究是受尊重的。我是败类，是家里唯一从事文学的人。”

少年时光里写满书本、漫画、电影。他梦想成为戏剧家，高中毕业后却进入大学农艺系，随后从文学院毕业。

1947年出版小说《通向蜘蛛巢的小径》，从此致力于开发小说叙述艺术的无限可能。

曾隐居巴黎15年，与列维-施特劳斯、罗兰·巴特、格诺等人交往密切。

1985年夏天准备哈佛讲学时患病。主刀医生表示自己未曾见过任何大脑构造像卡尔维诺的那般复杂精致。

Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 - 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).

Admired in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.