Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories - Italo Calvino [123]
‘The Call of the Water’, written as introduction to Aqueducts Past and Present, by Vittorio Gobbi and Sergio Torresella, published by Montubi, Milan, 1976.
‘The Mirror, the Target’ (manuscript tide); Corriere della Sera, 14 December 1978, under the title ‘There's a Woman behind the Target’.
‘The Other Eurydice’, September-October 1980.
‘The Memoirs of Casanova’, stories written to accompany a collection of etchings by Massimo Campigli published by Salomon and Torrini, 1981. The author's note, in the third person, states: ‘After Invisible Cities, a catalogue of imaginary cities visited by a resurrected Marco Polo, Italo Calvino begins another series of short stories attributed once again to a famous Venetian, in this case Giacomo Casanova. Like the previous book, this too is a “catalogue”, but this time of “amours”.’ Published in ha Repub-blica, 15-16 August 1982.
‘Henry Ford’, typescript with corrections in the author's hand, dated 30 September 1982. Television screenplay, never produced.
‘The Last Channel’, La Repubblica, 31 January 1984.
‘Implosion’, 13 August 1984.
‘Nothing and Not Much’, Washington Post, 3 June 1985.
English translation copyright © 1995 by Tim Parks
Calvino, Italo.
[Primal che tu dica “Pronto”. English]
Numbers in the dark: and other stories/Italo Calvino; translated from the Italian by Tim Parks.
p. cm.
I. Parks, Tim. II. Title.
PQ4809.A45P713 1995
853V914—dc20 95-24359 CIP
eISBN: 978-0-307-53900-7
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