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Italo Calvino
Originally published in Italy as Eremita a Parigi by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, in 1994 –T.p. verso.
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Dani Cavallaro
Examines the work of Italo Calvino in the context of the philosophical ideas he advanced in his theoretical and critical output. In the process, this examination bears witness to an…
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Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.
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Eugenio Bolongaro
One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino’s early writings, Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies…
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Claudia Nocentini
Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a visual source for Calvino’s fiction. This recurring theme provides both a link between some very different works and an…
Tommasina Gabriele
This book seeks to establish the importance of the erotic element in Calvino’s work through an investigation of the connection between his theories on language and sexual representation.
Michele Costagliola D'Abele
Una storia di amicizia e di collaborazione artistica fatta di destini incrociati quella tra l'Ouvroir de Litterature potentielle e Italo Calvino. Il presente saggio e attraverso un approccio oulipocritico alle…
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Constance Markey
This primer for Italo Calvino fans looks at the international author in English translation, appraising his place in world literature and tracing his development as a postmodern writer from the…
Julius Zukowski-Krebs
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Italienische u. Sardische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 2,7, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Dreiunddreissig Jahre sind nun seit dem Tod…
Serenella Iovino (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Italo Calvino’s Animals explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. Animals emerge as complex subjects and inhabitants of a world under siege. Beside them, another…
A captivating, realist collection of Calvino's early stories
These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving.
Calvino's war-torn…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Italo Calvino’s Feathered Ogre, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as the author’s…
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer’s life shed no light on…
A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. Calvino does what very few writers can do…
In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino…
Félix Calvino
The short stories in So Much Smoke owe much to Félix Calvino’s own experiences as a migrant who moved from the Galicia region of Spain to Australia, a country and…
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Italy’s most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. This book includes a…
A Study Guide for Italo Calvino’s Garden of Stubborn Cats, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Franco Ricci
Examining Calvino’s literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer’s need for textual and…
This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy’s most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved…
Angela M. Jeannet
Understanding Italo Calvino’s love of storytelling is pivotal to understanding the cultural and literary matrix of his lush fictional universe. A rich and vibrant critical portrait of Calvino’s work.
Maria Angela Cernigliaro
Felix Calvino
Set in a remote village in the northwest coast of Spain, Young Love is a deeply moving collection of six interconnected stories that call up the ghosts of the past…
Fellix Calvino
Alfonso is a gentle yet searching exploration of a Spanish migrant’s feelings and experiences in the country Australia used to be more than forty years ago. Felix Calvino infuses the…
Vezzani Maria Gloria
Studio volto ad indagare sulla tecnica narrativa di Italo Calvino per rintracciare elementi costanti che ne evidenzino l'ars combinatoria sottesa alla maggior parte delle sue opere. Oltre che per una…
Letizia Modena
This study recovers Italo Calvino’s central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction…
Joao Calvino
Bridget Tompkins
Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm is the first book-length analysis of the representation of the feminine in Calvino’s fiction. Using the structural umbrella of the Pygmalion paradigm and using feminist…
Calvino’s Combinational Creativity examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino.
Rhys Hughes
A collection of thirty stories inspired by the genius of the writer Italo Calvino...Paradoxical and philosophical fables; impossible cartographies and labyrinths of the mind and heart; towers that stretch across…
A rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature.
An extraordinary collection of essays, forewords, articles, and interviews, The Written…
This volume brings together, for the first time - in Italy or for an English-speaking audience - a collection of over 40 authors from the deep and broad tradition of…
Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War contains three stories drawing on Italo Calvino’s memories of the Second World War in Italy.
Italo Calvino’s beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor’s travels – a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.
Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author’s past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against…
The antagonists of this novel are eight readers in a library. The celebrated Italian novelist presents ten samples of contemporary writing from around the world as a series of parodies…
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his…
A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics. "All that can be done is for each one of…
Ricci’s book ranges widely over Calvino’s oeuvre to illustrate the accuracy of the idea articulated by Calvino himself that a visual image lies at the origin of all his narrative.
This book deals both with a transition from adolescence into youth and with a move from peace to war: as for very many other people, for the protagonist of this…
Laurence Louis Felix Bungener
Il testo del libro e quello della prima edizione italiana per i tipi della Tipografia Claudiana di Firenze, pubblicato nel 1868, che l'editore considerava "la piu imparziale e veridica di…
Whitney Sanderson
In 1570s Spain, Calvino, an Andalusian horse, is purchased from the Moreno estate in Seville to join King Phillip’s stable in Cordoba.
Elio Attilio Baldi
The Author in Criticism offers a comparative analysis of the reception and circulation of Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Italy, proposing new…