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A review by spacestationtrustfund
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
4.0
bro if you don't shut the fuck up i'm literally going to decree a stately pleasure dome
I do love a good story where the landscape is the real protagonist.
During a 50-year career as a translator, William Weaver translated the bulk of Umberto Eco's works and almost all of Italo Calvino's, as well as many other Italian authors, Italian poetry, and opera libretti. He was an ambulance driver in Italy during WWII, then lived primarily in Italy after the end of the war, meeting and befriending many of Italy's leading authors and intellectuals during the late 1940s and through the 1950s. His translation is elegant, eloquent, and excellent; his mastery of the language, evident. I highly recommend it as second only to the original Italian.
I do love a good story where the landscape is the real protagonist.
During a 50-year career as a translator, William Weaver translated the bulk of Umberto Eco's works and almost all of Italo Calvino's, as well as many other Italian authors, Italian poetry, and opera libretti. He was an ambulance driver in Italy during WWII, then lived primarily in Italy after the end of the war, meeting and befriending many of Italy's leading authors and intellectuals during the late 1940s and through the 1950s. His translation is elegant, eloquent, and excellent; his mastery of the language, evident. I highly recommend it as second only to the original Italian.