The Jaguar Sun
On a vacation in Mexico, a couple stays at a hotel in Oaxaca. In the bar they notice a painting of a nun & a priest from the 18th century who loved each other so much that when the priest died, the...
View ArticleLove Far From Home
The narrator takes an occasional train to different cities in Italy. But each room in each town has such an air of inevitability that it doesn't seem like his room at all. He could live years in a...
View ArticleIl Duce’s Portraits
PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer’s childhood memories of Mussolini and fascist propaganda... Writer tries to "chart a history of the evolution of Mussolini’s image through his official portraits as...
View ArticleWaiting for Death in a Hotel
At a certain time in the morning, the prisoners’ wives began to arrive and started gesturing, their faces turned up toward the windows. From the top floor, the prisoners leaned out to ask and answer...
View ArticleThe Daughters of the Moon
Deprived, as it was, of a covering of air to act as a protective shield, the moon found itself exposed right from the start to a continual bombardment of meteorites and to the corrosive action of the...
View ArticleThe Jaguar Sun
On a vacation in Mexico, a couple stays at a hotel in Oaxaca. In the bar they notice a painting of a nun & a priest from the 18th century who loved each …
View ArticleLove Far From Home
The narrator takes an occasional train to different cities in Italy. But each room in each town has such an air of inevitability that it doesn't seem …
View ArticleIl Duce’s Portraits
PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer’s childhood memories of Mussolini and fascist propaganda... Writer tries to "chart a history of the evolution of …
View ArticleWaiting for Death in a Hotel
Italo Calvino’s short story, set in Italy during the Second World War, about fighters imprisoned in a hotel by Nazi forces.
View ArticleThe Daughters of the Moon
Short story about a lunar eclipse and the return of civilization. What happens on the earth when a moon dies is not easy to describe. It was a world where…
View ArticleThe Adventure of a Skier
There was a line at the ski lift. The group of boys who had come on the bus had joined it, one next to the other, skis parallel, and every time it advanced—it was long and, instead of going straight,...
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