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[Brand: Vintage] ↠ Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday "Fantastic visions -- master storytellers" according to Glenn Russell. Italo Calvino has collected 26 of his favorite imaginary tales here and, since each tale is worthy of its own review, I will chose one of my personal favorites: `The Holes in the Mask' by French fin-de-siècle decadent writer Jean Lorrain (1855-1906). Below is a brief synopsis of Lorrain's 6-page gem along with my observations on how his tale relates to several themes of decadent literature.During a night of carnival, b
| Title | : | Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679755446 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 608 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
"Fantastic visions -- master storytellers" according to Glenn Russell. Italo Calvino has collected 26 of his favorite imaginary tales here and, since each tale is worthy of its own review, I will chose one of my personal favorites: `The Holes in the Mask' by French fin-de-siècle decadent writer Jean Lorrain (1855-1906). Below is a brief synopsis of Lorrain's 6-page gem along with my observations on how his tale relates to several themes of decadent literature.During a night of carnival, bedecked in his domino cloak, velvet. The Literary Fantastic According to the Master Himself The stories collected in this volume span through some several hundred years and many languages. The authors represented wrote not only in the genre of the fantastic, they are recognized masters. But here we find their finest, eeriest, most bizarre and phantasmagoric tales. Reading through the book provides a real sense of the development of the ghost story and the fantasy through the years.Perhaps of even greater importance, for those of us who are Calvino fa. _mads said Hoping to be swept away. I was instead disappointed. I enjoyed Italo's Italian Folktakes so much that I thought this would be another endless read. Instead, I found it dry and methodical. While some of the stories were intriguing, the majority were immature works created by talented authors. Meaning, many of the stories just didn't have the direction, plot, or moral I expect from a "fantastic tale."
Wells's "The Country of the Blind." The remaining contributors range from moderately well-known to obscure. Wells), but Calvino largely avoided their best-known stories; the only inclusions likely to be familiar to many Americans are Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and H.G. --Cynthia Ward. The brilliant Italian writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) compiled Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, a historical overview of great fantastic literature of the 19th
Hoffmann--"The Sandman"Gérard de Nerval--"the Enchanted Hand"Nikolai Gogol--"The Nose"Edgar Allan Poe--"The Tell-Tale Heart"Hans Christian Andersen--"The Shadow"Ambrose Bierce--"Chickamauga"Robert Louis Stevenson--"The Bottle Imp"Henry James--"The Friends of the Friends"H.G. With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. Selections include:E.T.A. Wells--"The Country of the Blind"Comprising stories of the supernatural and narratives of the everyday uncanny, Fantastic Tales is a gallery of enchantments, deliciously entertaining yet more disturbing than our most persistent nightmares.. The resulting volume is both an education in the history of fantastic literature and a rollercoaster ride of wonder and terror, vampires, ghosts, and the rebellious creatures of our own psyches
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