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Italo Calvino (/ k æ l ˈ v iː n oʊ /, also US: / k ɑː l ˈ-/, Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If ...
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- Writer, journalist
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Feb 27, 2023 · Italo Calvino was, word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century. He was born a hundred years ago in Cuba, the eldest son of a wandering Italian...
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Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century. Calvino left Cuba for Italy in his youth. He joined the Italian Resistance during World War II and after.
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- September 19, 1985
- October 15, 1923
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)
- The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun (Translator), Ana Goldstein (Translator)
- Cosmicomics.
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler - This is a novel that pretends to be a novel that can’t get started. Through various editorial and other mishaps, every chapter turns out to be not a continuation of the work we are supposed be reading but the first chapter of another one.
- Invisible Cities - In this extraordinary mixture of fantasy, fable and history Calvino traces the conversations of Marco Polo with the Great Khan. Each conversation is effectively a place, an invented, magical city that Polo ‘tells’ to the Khan as if it were a story.
- Six Memos for the Next Millennium - These memos represent the lectures that Calvino was to have given at Harvard in 1983. He had written five of them at the time of his death, so that in English the very title represents a wish and a regret--the Italian book is called Lezioni americane, Italian Lessons (or lectures).
- The Road to San Giovanni - This is an autobiographical essay about Calvino’s childhood in San Remo--long walks in the mountains, many movies, time on the beach.
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Oct 10, 2023 · Where to start reading Italo Calvino’s books. The best books to begin with, from one of literature’s most compelling and idiosyncratic minds. John Self 10 October 2023. Ulf Andersen/Hulton Archive via Getty Images.
Oct 14, 2023 · A tribute to the centenary of the Italian author, who rejected fascism, communism and conventional genres in his literary and intellectual journey. Learn how he explored new narrative landscapes, challenged the status quo and sought to recognize and shrink the hell of the living.
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