Collection of Sand

Synopsis

With Encyclopedic Knowledge, This Title Writes About Such Diverse Subjects As The Imaginative Pleasures Of Maps, Bizarre Exhibitions And The Earliest Forms Of Written Language. It Provides A Glimpse Into The Mind Of A Master Of The Magination. Machine Generated Contents Note: Collection Of Sand -- I. Exhibitions -- Explorations -- Collection Of Sand -- How New The New World Was -- The Traveller In The Map -- The Museum Of Wax Monsters -- The Dragon Tradition -- Before The Alphabet -- The Wonders Of The Popular Press -- A Novel Inside A Painting -- Say It With Knots -- Writers Who Draw -- Ii. The Eye's Ray -- In Memory Of Roland Barthes -- Day-flies In The Fortress -- The Pig And The Archaeologist -- The Narrative Of Trajan's Column -- The Written City: Inscriptions And Graffiti -- Thinking The City: The Measure Of Spaces -- The Redemption Of Objects -- Light In Our Eyes -- Iii. Accounts Of The Fantastic -- The Adventures Of Three Clockmakers And Three Automata -- Fairy Geography -- The Archipelago Of Imaginary Places -- Stamps From States Of Mind -- The Encyclopedia Of A Visionary -- Iv. The Shape Of Time -- Japan -- The Old Woman In The Purple Kimono -- The Obverse Of The Sublime -- The Wooden Temple. Contents Note Continued: The Thousand Gardens -- The Moon Chasing The Moon -- The Sword And The Leaves -- The Pinballs Of Solitude -- Eros And Discontinuity -- The Ninety-ninth Tree -- Mexico -- The Shape Of The Tree -- Time And Branches -- The Forest And The Gods -- Iran -- The Mihrab -- The Flames Within The Flames. Italo Calvino ; Translated By Martin Mclaughlin. Translated From The Italian. Translated From The Italian.