Italian novelist and short story writer Calvino has been accused of making protons, quarks and living cells talk as if they were people, but here he defends his approach as a kind of animism attuned to the way the universe works. His fascination with myth
In his acclaimed work Danube, Claudio Magris painted a vast canvas stretching from the source of the river to the Black Sea. Now he focuses on the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy where he was born and where he has lived most intensely. From the fores
In questo libro l'autore ripercorre alcuni dei viaggi più significativi della sua esperienza, spesso dei ritorni, oppure momenti in cui ha attraversato una frontiera o uno Stato che magari non esistono più, in cui ha visto un gesto o un'espressione su u
One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part of the 'Penguin on Design' series in Pengu
