Fantastic Tales, Italo Calvino
Fantastic Tales, Italo Calvino
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Fantastic Tales
Visionary and Everyday

Author: Italo Calvino

Narrator: Luis Moreno

Unabridged: 23 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/01/2019

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

"The true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances." - from Calvino's introduction to Fantastic Tales Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a twentieth-century master of the speculative. This posthumously published anthology of enchanting, uncanny, terrifying, and immortally entertaining short stories includes E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman," Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp," and many more, each with an introduction by Calvino. Fantastic Tales is a delight for the mind and a feast for the senses.

About Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the short story collection Cosmicomics, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. He received numerous awards for his work, including the Riccione Prize and the Saint-Vincent Prize. Lionized in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on May 01, 2022

Italy's master spinner of the wildly inventive, the incomparable Italo Calvino, includes twenty-six of his favorite imaginary tales in this excellent collection. And since each tale is worthy of its own review, I have chosen one of my personal favorites: The Holes in the Mask by French fin-de-siècle......more

Goodreads review by Riju on October 25, 2021

While reading the Mammoth anthologies of various generic tales, I had somehow come to understand that anthologies contain mostly 'Meh' and some 'That's Good' stories. I used to think that anthologies are built upon a premise that whatever the editor can get hold of, goes into it without a proper tho......more

Goodreads review by Adriana on August 21, 2024

Livros da ilha deserta #5. Seleção literalmente fantástica (rá!), não à toa ao final daquele século Freud concebeu a psicanálise, esse apanhado aqui preconiza os saberes psicanalíticos como bem Freud afirmava os escritores saberem por intuição o que ele descobriu com muita pesquisa.......more

Goodreads review by David on November 16, 2014

Some brilliant tales in this well-selected anthology. My favourites were those by Dickens, Turgenev, Leskov, de Maupassant, James and Bierce. I had to skip past the Walter Scott and Rudyard Kipling stories, though; Scots English and extensive descriptions of a bridge across the Ganges were definite......more

Goodreads review by Paulo Vinicius on July 10, 2019

Neste pequeno registro, vou deixar minhas impressões sobre os melhores contos da coletânea, na minha opinião: 1 - Em terra de cegos (H.G. Wells) Esta é a segunda vez que eu leio esse conto do H.G. Wells. E é incrível o quanto ele fica melhor a cada nova leitura. A gente acaba percebendo outras nuances......more

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