La nube de smog

La nube de smog - Italo Calvino - Siruela
Publisher name: 
Siruela
Year of publication: 
2011
Pages: 
124
Binding: 
Cardboard

The protagonist of The smog cloud illusion struggle without against one of the greatest threats in industrialized societies: air pollution. Determined to preserve the lucidity, his attitude does not prevent him to inquire into the dull reality around him.

"The cloud of smog is a story continually tempted to become something else: a sociological essay or diary; but to those temptations [the author] get always oppose his defensive tactics, based on comic gags and shrugging, allowing him to remain suspended in the atmosphere that is so typical, between symbolic transfiguration, currently extracted from the real , outbursts of humor and prose poem. Image and ideogram the world that we face is smog, smoky mist and chemical-laden detritus of industrial cities. Each of the characters has its own way to confront it. Among them, the anonymous protagonist seems to reject any illusory eva...read more

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Book: La nube de smog

ISBN: 9788498415230
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