Biz masallara inandıkça, dünyada vicdan, iyilik, merhamet kazanacak… Küçüklere Masallar, Efsunlu Hayvan Masalları, Azıcık Korkutan Masallar, Deniz Masalları, Efsunlu Masallar ve Güldüren Masallar'dan sonra "Azıcık Acıklı Masallar"… Italo Calvino ile içinden hırsızların ve iyi kalplilerin, huysuzların ve merhametlilerin, devlerin ve büyülü kuşların, zalimlerin ve alçakgönüllülerin geçtiği masal diyarında gezmeye devam ediyoruz. Desideria Guicciardini'nin resimlediği Azıcık Acıklı Masallar'da bir Palermo masalı: Uğursuzluk, bir Toscana masalı: Bellinda ile Dev, bir Floransa masalı: Büyülü Kuş, bir Venedik masalı: Elmanın İçi ile Elmanın Kabuğu ve bir Torino masalı: Kanarya Prens yer alıyor.
Author
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979). His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
