These complaints are still heard today - local community groups objecting to the building of sky-scrapers that will block the sun, or developments on green land. #CalvinoBookClub #ItaloCalvino #APlungeIntoRealEstate #APlungeIntoCalvinoPodcast #CalvinoCentenary2023
Quinto's mother then bemoans the chopping down of the finest Chilean pine tree on the Riviera by a property development company and the fact that due to these developments they 'have to wait half an hour longer every morning for the sun'. #CalvinoBookClub #ItaloCalvino #APlungeIntoRealEstate
Calvino then goes on to indicate that there is a class aspect to this, describing the 'crowded houses of the old part of town, with their mouldy, lichenous walls'. And all this is in the first two pages.
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'apartment buildings six or eight stories high, their massive while flanks standing out like barriers propping the crumbling slope of the coast and putting out as many windows and balconies as they could toward the sea.' #CalvinoBookClub #ItaloCalvino #APlungeIntoRealEstate
December's #CalvinoBookClub choice is the novella that gave this podcast its title - A Plunge Into Real Estate, from 1957. I am reading it in a translation by D.S. Carne-Ross.
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