limited use of the computer and phone
i'm leaving for
italy...and berlin
and will be gone
for 28 days.
posting will
be here & there
ps: can you think
of a good book to bring?
an italian or,
german writer.
credit: journal standard
italy...and berlin
and will be gone
for 28 days.
posting will
be here & there
ps: can you think
of a good book to bring?
an italian or,
german writer.
credit: journal standard
29 comments:
SARAH'S KEY. a must read!!!
Italo Calvino!!!
Invisible Cities, Italian Folktales or If On Winter's Night A Traveler, the last one is one killer title for a book, I think.
Sometimes the Soul, two novellas by Gioia Timpanelli. Italian/American writer and storyteller. Along the lines of Calvino. Enjoy...
i was going to suggest
italo calvino...
have
a wonderful
trip!
La solitudine dei numeri primi by Paolo Giodano. Very nice one!!
The Empty Canvas -- A Moravia
Bread & Wine -- I Silone
Group Portrait with Lady -- H Boll
Tin Drum -- G Grass
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald. This is an incredible book.
no books, just a film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Youth
Curzio Malaparte "Kaputt", he was half german/italian and built Villa Malaparte on Capri where Godards Le Mèpris is set.
War & society reports from WW II, very good but hard, but it tells a lot about the ambiguity of Europe.
And Cesare Pavese, "Among women only"
I have to confess no matching german author/book comes to my mind right now.
I am looking forward to your posts from my city B.
Gute Reise
I second Invisible Cities by Italo Calvano and would offer up Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald where a German writer is concerned.
Good and safe travels!
Italo Calvino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino
I'm with the others--Italo Calvino's 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler' is a fantastic read. The only work by a German author that I've read recently is 'All Quiet on the Western Front'--incredible writing, but not exactly holiday fare!
thomas mann's death in venice! or short stories about berlin by wladamir kaminer...russendisko is nice. enjoy!
no books
except a
blank book
for you to fill
with your own thoughts.
buen viaje
Beth
watch best of youth. amazing. the decameron always gets me in the mood for italy.
The Leopard. Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Moon and the Bonfires. Cesare Pavese
have an amazing time!!!
Calvino. I like Cosmicomics in addition to the suggestions about. Also Primo Levi's The Periodic Table.
oh hermann hesse...all of his books are great...:))
oh bon voyage..and please please have a marvellous time!! as i know you will!
Inherent Vice
berlin stories by christopher isherwood...bon voyage!
Goethe's Italian Journals, then, The Rings of Saturn. Both perfect for a vacation. Ruskin's Mornings in Florence too.
natalia ginzburg's The Little Virtues......
Robert Walser spoke German with a strange Swiss accent, and everyone in Berlin thought he was a little funny. He wrote playful short stories, newspaper feuilletons and a silly novel about a clerk who was bored but not unhappy. Robert Musil and Walter Benjamin were big fans. He wrote in tiny microscript, ended up in the mental home at Waldau, and liked to take long walks in the snow. Calvino is also a fine choice.
A spring in sicily saladore santagali
or (obviously) a room with a view
italo svevo
I second Sebald ('The Emigrants' particularly although his 'Vertigo' has an Italian sequence, I think) and would add 'Midnight in Sicily', by Peter Robb, for brilliantly effervescent non-fiction that pries into Italy. Watch La Strada and Bicycle Thieves.
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers. Such a lovely book.
berlin! great, come to my party on october 2nd :)
it´s in isoldestrasse 1, 12159 berlin, directly at the ringbahn bundesplatz- stop.
starting from around 7 there will be live music from aroud 8, great people from berlin and around plus my new, gorgeous contemporary jewellery.
you are very welcome to this laid-back part of town, that is home to so many intersting people. feel heartily invited and bring friends. :)
cheers,
daniela
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