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William Weaver (1) (1923–2013)

Author of Open city : seven writers in postwar Rome

For other authors named William Weaver, see the disambiguation page.

William Weaver (1) has been aliased into William Fense Weaver.

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The Name of the Rose (1980) — Translator, some editions — 19,430 copies
Foucault's Pendulum (1988) — Translator, some editions — 17,426 copies
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979) — Translator, some editions — 12,442 copies
Invisible Cities (1972) — Translator, some editions — 9,325 copies
The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript (1980) — Translator, some editions — 8,974 copies
Baudolino (2000) — Translator, some editions — 7,787 copies
The Island of the Day Before (1995) — Translator, some editions — 7,119 copies
The Baron in the Trees (1957) — Translator, some editions — 4,590 copies
Zeno's Conscience (1930) — Translator, some editions — 3,556 copies
Cosmicomics (1965) — Translator, some editions — 3,176 copies
How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays (1992) — Translator, some editions — 2,334 copies
Travels in Hyperreality (1984) — Translator, some editions — 2,232 copies
The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1969) — Translator, some editions — 2,083 copies
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) — Translator, some editions — 2,055 copies
Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City (1963) — Translator, some editions — 2,037 copies
Mr. Palomar (1983) — Translator, some editions — 1,971 copies
O Finado Mattia Pacal (1904) — Translator, some editions — 1,949 copies
Difficult Loves (1958) — Translator, some editions — 1,749 copies
The Path to the Spiders' Nests (1947) — Translator, some editions — 1,674 copies
If Not Now, When? (1985) — Translator, some editions — 1,443 copies
History (1974) — Translator, some editions — 1,371 copies
Misreadings (1963) — Translator, some editions — 1,323 copies
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926) — Translator, some editions — 1,278 copies
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1999) — Translator, some editions — 1,260 copies
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (1957) — Translator, some editions — 1,188 copies
The Complete Cosmicomics (1997) — Translator, some editions — 1,050 copies
t zero (1967) — Translator, some editions — 917 copies
The Uses of Literature (1980) — Translator, some editions — 905 copies
The World Treasury of Science Fiction (1989) — Translator, some editions — 889 copies
The Wrench (1978) — Translator, some editions — 882 copies
Postscript to The Name of the Rose (1983) — Translator, some editions — 829 copies
Under the Jaguar Sun (1986) — Translator, some editions — 807 copies
Boredom (1961) — Introduction, some editions — 745 copies
A Man (1979) — Translator, some editions — 699 copies
Apocalypse Postponed (1965) — Translator, some editions — 516 copies
The Ruin of Kasch (1983) — Translator, some editions — 460 copies
The Watcher and Other Stories (1971) — Translator, some editions — 451 copies
A Violent Life (1959) — Translator, some editions — 412 copies
The experience of pain (1963) — Translator, some editions — 402 copies
The Sunday Woman (1972) — Translator, some editions — 385 copies
Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I (1976) — Translator, some editions — 313 copies
Aracoeli (1982) — Translator, some editions — 279 copies
Within the Walls (1956) — Translator, some editions — 242 copies
The Heron (1970) — Translator, some editions — 198 copies
Private Renaissance (1985) — Translator, some editions — 195 copies
1934 (1982) — Translator, some editions — 186 copies
The Dust Roads of Monferrato (1987) — Translator, some editions — 164 copies
The Story of a Humble Christian (1968) — Translator, some editions — 150 copies
Incubus (1964) — Translator, some editions — 148 copies
Macno (1984) — Translator, some editions; Translator, some editions — 113 copies
The Smell of Hay (1972) — Translator, some editions — 112 copies
Granta 10: Travel Writing (1984) — Contributor — 88 copies
The Three Astronauts (1988) — Translator, some editions — 77 copies
Yucatan (1988) — Translator, some editions — 76 copies
The Bomb and the General (1988) — Translator, some editions — 67 copies
The School for Dictators (1938) — Translator, some editions — 64 copies
English National Opera Guide : Verdi : Otello (1887) — Contributor — 44 copies
Per amore, solo per amore (1983) — Translator, some editions — 42 copies
Life of Moravia (1990) — Translator, some editions — 42 copies
English National Opera Guide : Puccini : Turandot (1984) — Translator — 37 copies
Un cuore arido (1961) — Translator, some editions — 37 copies
The Emerald (1974) — Translator, some editions — 31 copies
Seven Verdi Librettos (1975) — Translator — 30 copies
Remorse (1963) — Translator, some editions — 30 copies
Antonio in Love (1966) — Translator, some editions — 23 copies
The Verdi-Boito Correspondence (1994) — Translator, some editions — 16 copies
Erté (1975) — Translator — 9 copies
Piazza Carignano (1985) — Translator, some editions — 9 copies
A Sign In Space — Translator, some editions — 6 copies
Zavattini: sequences from a cinematic life (1970) — Translator, some editions — 5 copies
Antaeus No. 29, Spring 1978 — Contributor — 2 copies
Overture Opera Guides : Puccini : La bohème (2010) — Translator — 2 copies
Puccini : Turandot : 2005/6 [programme] (2005) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Talking too much to a writer about his process wears down the patience, and pretty soon it's like talking to a janitor about his process except in the latter case you haven't heard it all before. But in Calvino's case he manages to keep it languidly intriguing. I always thought the sort of vagueness that goes through his works was a like a dreamy vagueness, but it seems like he sees it more as an austere vagueness, a Calvinism taking perhaps the only form Calvinism could take in a Cuba-Italian, a contained detachedness, you see. He seems stern but not unpleasant. Paris Review.… (more)
 
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MeditationesMartini | Oct 26, 2010 |
Dry reading, but useful for dates and facts referring to the great composer's works
 
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YvonneG | Jan 5, 2009 |

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