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Italo Calvino
A revision of the translation published in 1956 which incorporates changes made by the author to the work first published in 1947 and subsequently revised in 1964.
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The definitive edition of the cosmicomics, Italo Calvino’s short stories exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe. The Complete Cosmicomics brings together all of these enchanting stories–including some…
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms
Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in this collection as Calvino intended them.
A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the…
Originally published in Italy as Eremita a Parigi by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, in 1994 –T.p. verso.
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…
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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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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.
Italo Calvino, whose works reflect the major literary and cultural trends of the second half of the twentieth century, is known for his imagination, humour, and technical virtuosity. He explores…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler’s assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the…
Maria Angela Cernigliaro
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.
Anthony Julian Tamburri
This study examines the necessity of reading retrospectively. In this manner, the reader who comes along after the composition of an authorOs opus may better understand the authorOs earlier works…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Gunde Kurtz
Autoreflexivitat und Metaliteratur sind klingende Worte in der Literaturkritik der letzten Jahre. Was sich dahinter verbirgt, wird jedoch nur angedeutet. Vorliegende Studie untersucht die stete Entwicklung der Autoreflexivitat im Werk…
Jessica Mohr
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Philosophische Fakultat), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Italo Calvinos 1979 erschienener Roman Wenn ein Reisender in…
Manu Mohr
Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Franzoesisch - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universitat Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Roman Molloy von Samuel Beckett, der im Jahre 1951 zum…
Sarah Kugler
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Italienische u. Sardische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 1,0, Universitat Potsdam (Institut fur Romanistik), Veranstaltung: Modularbeit im Modul FL, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract…
