They may at first be those of the Protestant theology and Victorian morality of C.S. But these sorts of stories offer new maps for reality. Your purchase keeps indie booksellers in business and I receive a commission.There are those books we go to not to escape this world, but to experience the truth of a mysteriously attributed quote, вЂњThere is another world, and it is this one.вЂќ That is to say that the worlds we find in certain novels are no less filled with dread, ambiguity, and moral freight than our own. If this review made you want to read the book, pick up a copy of Cosmicomics from PowellвЂ™s Books. ItвЂ™s like IвЂ™m locked in some Western European tapestry where Calvino creates the clean yet inventive geometry governing the weft while Schulz weaves and embroiders the warp with his crazy wild descriptions. What I love about this process of iterative creation is that each new interpretation feels like rediscovering a story as each artist adds bits of themselves to the project.Д¬alvino and Schulz are inextricably linked in my reading habits. The story by Schulz is colorful and alive, whereas the film is truly creepy and compelling. I started thinking about вЂњThe Street of CrocodilesвЂќ by Bruno Schulz and the short film by the Brothers Quay (known for making music videos for Tool) of the same name. But can we ever create the same artwork or do we always leave a piece of ourselves behind? The Beauty of VariationsД¬hinese painters repaint masterpieces to learn the strokes of the masters who came before them. Instead, Casarosa presents a film about family relationships and how the brightest ideas sometimes come from the youngest minds. The characters change from the page to the screen and the elements of danger and loss are omitted. вЂњThe Distance of the MoonвЂќ is written for adults and in that wonderfully concise Calvino fashion, contains an undercurrent of sexuality and an allegory for unrequited love. Though the setting of вЂњThe Distance of the MoonвЂќ and La Luna is the same and both are filled with childlike wonder, there are substantial differences between the stories. What interested me about the Calvino/Pixar relationship is that screenwriter Enrico Casarosa and Pixar were bringing this beautiful story of people rowing boats out into the sea to climb ladders onto a low-hanging moon to an audience who would mostly not read Calvino. This could become a post about pop culture versus art, but IвЂ™d rather not make those distinctions, not today anyway. But I was surprised (and delighted) to find something I consider to be relatively obscure had inspired a Pixar short. At this very moment, I am watching a random film and taking notes in a separate document on the interactions of the characters to help me understand the characters in my latest novel. I shouldnвЂ™t because my writing is often inspired by other art forms. Sometimes I forget how much art and literature feed off one another. It took a few hours for me to remember that I was thinking of PixarвЂ™s La Luna, the short film at the front of Brave. I had seen it-with my eyes, not in my imagination. As I was reading Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino this weekend, I felt like the story вЂњThe Distance of the MoonвЂќ was somehow familiar.

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