An Autobiography
9 best books like An Autobiography (Igor Stravinsky): The Baron in the Trees, Novecento. Un monologo, To Each His Own, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Survival in Auschwitz, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin: Una riflessione su musica colta e modernità, Canone inverso, Il cavaliere inesistente
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms
Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his...
| Author | Alessandro Baricco |
| ISBN | 8807813025 |
Il Virginian era un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, con il suo carico di miliardari, di emigranti e di gente qualsiasi. Dicono che sul Virginian si esibisse ogni sera un pianista straordinario, dalla tecnica strabiliante, capace di suonare una musica mai...
| Author | Leonardo Sciascia |
| ISBN | 0940322528 |
This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno the pharmacist done? Nothing that he can think of. The next day he and his hunting companion are both dead. The police investigation is inconclusive. However, a modest high school teacher with a literary bent...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0060956585 |
Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult...
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0684826801 |
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.
In...
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
| Author | Harry Bernstein |
| ISBN | 0345495802 |
There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its "Invisible Wall."
The narrow street where Harry...
L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin: Una riflessione su musica colta e modernità
| Author | Alessandro Baricco |
| ISBN | 8811674980 |
Prema Hegelu, muzika treba da izdigne dušu iznad sebe same, treba da je vine iznad svog sadržaja i stvori jedno područje gde će, oslobođena svih patnji, moći nesmetano da uroni u pročišćeni osećaj same sebe.
Naučnici sa Univerziteta u Viskonsinu su otkrili da se proizvodnja mleka...
In an isolated Austrian music school in the 1930s, two boys, each struggling with the burden of talent, the curse of obsession, and the forces of history ranged against them, become locked in a complex friendship. One is a Hungarian bastard peasant boy touched by brilliance, the other the sole heir to...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 8804370866 |
Suor Teodora narra la storia di Agilulfo, cavaliere senza corpo, di cui vive solo l'armatura. Mentre Carlo Magno assedia Parigi, Agilulfo, dopo essersi coperto di gloria, decide di partire alla ricerca di Sofronia, fanciulla da lui salvata quindici anni prima. Accompagnato dallo scudiero Gurdulù,...
