Felix Calvino's Blog, page 2
May 26, 2022
Young Love & Other Stories I Anne Di Lauro
May 27, 2022
In Félix Calvino’s Young Love we meet Manuel as an old man, and then have the pleasure of recognising him again in the story that follows, as a boy in love. In other stories we meet other young people, each with their poignant love story to tell. We are transported to another time and place, to a Galician village, perhaps about 50 years ago. We accompany the characters in their daily tasks and routines and dance with them at weddings and festivals. The sense of place is vividly conveyed. We are there in the school room, in the family kitchen, at gatherings where the young learn about life and love from village hearsay, while trying to understand their dawning feelings of love. The stories are wrapped in a poignant sense of potential tragedy that is never spelled out: an atmosphere that is a hallmark of all of Félix Calvino’s stories. This, as well as the simplicity and quiet wit with which the stories are told, makes his writing stand out as unusual and refreshing.
Anne Di Lauro
May 20, 2022
Young Love & Other Stories I Janice Jones
May 21, 2022
Felix’s writing is dreamy, sensuous and evocative of love on an intimate scale, and slower time. I have loved reading A Hatful of Cherries, and Young Love…both tender and evocative collections of human stories unwinding in slow time. Gorgeous. Just what I needed to remind me of real love.
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May 3, 2022
April 17, 2022
Young Love & Other Stories I The Fountain
April 18, 2022
Review of Young Love, Felix Calvino's new offering.
Open any volume of Tang dynasty poets and you will often find their inner spirits and those of mountains and rivers illumining one another. Li Bai, for instance, lived for a while as a hermit lost among craggy peaks. Across hollow gorges, tones from his flute echoed. Deer flocked to him, licking pine nuts from the palms of his hands and rubbing their necks against the trunks of fragrant pines. The intimate relationship between the landscape and Bai's creativity is captured in his life’s most enduring image: of himself, one evening, attempting to embrace the full moon’s reflection in a lake.Even in lonely rooms, lost within the din of busy cities, William Wordsworth would reminisce on the beauteous forms of the English countryside, of the whispers of springs flowing among steep and lofty cliffs, of orchards of pastoral farms green to their very doors. These images opened a door within the poet wherein, with his blood and very breath stilled, he became a living soul. For Bi and Wordsworth, the inner luminosity of the landscape provides a spiritual commons, a source of creativity any artist can reflect to nurture inspiration. For the past several thousand years, vast swaths of the Iberian Peninsula have served as commons. Within the forested folds of a Galician village, some of the characters in Felix Calvino's latest volume, Young Love, often alone, and often at night, discover within the hinterlands of their hearts, a secret, living fountain of creativity. The only authority needed to put this bounty to use is to do so. As usual, Felix does so masterfully.5.0 out of 5 stars The FountainReviewed in the United States on January 10, 2022
Young Love & Other Stories I Jim Powell
April 18, 2022
Review of Young Love, Felix Calvino's new offering.
Open any volume of Tang dynasty poets and you will often find their inner spirits and those of mountains and rivers illumining one another. Li Bai, for instance, lived for a while as a hermit lost among craggy peaks. Across hollow gorges, tones from his flute echoed. Deer flocked to him, licking pine nuts from the palms of his hands and rubbing their necks against the trunks of fragrant pines. The intimate relationship between the landscape and Bai's creativity is captured in his life’s most enduring image: of himself, one evening, attempting to embrace the full moon’s reflection in a lake.Even in lonely rooms, lost within the din of busy cities, William Wordsworth would reminisce on the beauteous forms of the English countryside, of the whispers of springs flowing among steep and lofty cliffs, of orchards of pastoral farms green to their very doors. These images opened a door within the poet wherein, with his blood and very breath stilled, he became a living soul. For Bi and Wordsworth, the inner luminosity of the landscape provides a spiritual commons, a source of creativity any artist can reflect to nurture inspiration. For the past several thousand years, vast swaths of the Iberian Peninsula have served as commons. Within the forested folds of a Galician village, some of the characters in Felix Calvino's latest volume, Young Love, often alone, and often at night, discover within the hinterlands of their hearts, a secret, living fountain of creativity. The only authority needed to put this bounty to use is to do so. As usual, Felix does so masterfully.Jim Powellhttps://www.facebook.com/james.powell...
April 13, 2022
March 25, 2022
So Much Smoke I Short Film I Elli Iliades
March 25, 2022
Day 1 of filming So Much Smoke.
This film wouldn’t be possible without the beautiful short story by Felix Calvino and our incredible cast and crew.
February 27, 2022
Goodreads Giveaway I Young Love & Other Stories
January 31, 2022
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