Letters 1941-1985
Italo Calvino
Letters 1941-1985
Italo Calvino
The first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century
Italo Calvino, Italy’s most important postwar novelist, was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Michelangelo Antonioni and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The letters included in this selection are filled with insights about Calvino’s writing and that of others; about Italian, American, English, and French literature; about literary criticism and literature in general; and about culture and politics. The book will fascinate and delight Calvino fans and anyone interested in a remarkable portrait of a great writer at work.
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