Italo Calvino,John Radziewick,William Weaver
â€œThe thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavorsâ€™ highest notes vibrate, juxtaposing them in modulations, in chords, and especially in dissonances that would assert themselves as an incomparable experience.â€ â€” From ,Under the Jaguar Sun, Â , These intoxicating stories delve down to the core of our senses. Taste, hearing, and smell. Amid the flavors of Mexicoâ€™s fiery chilies and spices, a couple on holiday discovers dark truths about the maturing of desire in the title story, â€œUnder the Jaguar Sun.â€ In â€œA King Listens,â€ a gripping portrait of a frenzied mind, the menacing echoes in a huge palace spur a tyrantâ€™s thoughts to the heights of paranoid intensity. â€œThe Name, the Noseâ€ drives to a startling conclusion as men across time and space pursue the women whose aromas have enchanted them. Mordant and deliciously offbeat, this trio of tales is a treat from a master of short fiction., â€œ[Calvino is] a learned, daring, ingeniously gifted magus . . . ,Under the Jaguar Sun . . . ,fuses fable with neuron . . . The reader is likely to salivate.â€ â€” Cynthia Ozick, ,New York Times Book Review
Fiction,Short Stories,European Literature,Italian Literature,Cultural,Italy,Literature,Classics,Literary Fiction,Literature,20th Century,Magical Realism,Novels
Under the Jaguar Sun