Gianfranco Calligarich
Born
in Asmara, Italian East Africa
May 03, 1939
Died
November 25, 2024
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Last Summer in the City
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12 editions
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1970
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Prechádzky so psami
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In de omhelzing van de rivier
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2011
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Wie ein wilder Gott
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Posta prioritaria
3 editions
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2002
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Principessa
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2013
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La malinconia dei Crusich
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2016
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Quattro uomini in fuga
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Martini Eden (Tusitala)
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Das Leben ist herrlich: Familiengeschichten und andere Herzensangelegenheiten
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“Readers are a dying species,” I said. “Like whales, partridges, wild animals in general. Borges calls them black swans, and maintains that good readers are now scarcer than good writers. He says reading is an activity subsequent to writing, more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. No,” I went on, “that’s not where the danger lies. Books make different impressions according to the state of mind you read them in. A book that struck you as banal on a first reading may dazzle you on a second simply because in the meantime you suffered some kind of heartbreak, or you took a journey, or you fell in love. In other words, something happened to you.”
― Last Summer in the City
― Last Summer in the City
“Rome by her very nature has a particular intoxication that wipes out memory. She's not so much a city as a wild beast hidden in some secret part of you. There can be no half measures with her, either she's the love of your life or you have to leave her, because that's what the tender beast demands, to be loved. …If she's loved she'll give herself to you whichever way you want her, all you need to do is go with the flow and you'll be within reach of the happiness you deserve. You will have summer evenings glittering with lights, vibrant spring mornings, cafe tablecloths ruffled by the wind like girls’ skirts, keen winters, and endless autumns…Every now and again, someone did get the hell out.”
― Last Summer in the City
― Last Summer in the City
“There was great sadness in the speed at which the days were getting shorter. As if they were trying to redeem something that was irredeemable. With a sense of heartache, I thought about September, when the ferocity of summer would abate.”
― Last Summer in the City
― Last Summer in the City
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