Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and novelist whose whimsical and imaginative stories made him one of the most significant literary voices of the 20th century. Calvino, who died in 1985, has ...

Italo Calvino, Author, William Weaver, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $12.95 (86p) ISBN 978-0-15-192820-0. A sumptuous small gem of a book, this volume contains three of the tales on the ...

Calvino’s early biography, which plays a role in his mythos, may be relevant here. He grew up affluent on a working farm in San Remo, surrounded by the area’s thick woods and by the avocados ...

Kathryn Hume, Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos (Clarendon Press, 1992) Martin McLaughlin, Italo Calvino (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production. Show less ...

Italo Calvino (trans. Ann Goldstein), The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays (Mariner Books Classics, 2023) Kathryn Hume, Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos (Clarendon Press, 1992) ...

Italo Calvino's Into the War and Philip K. Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, two posthumously published books of short fiction, contrast greatly but deliver stimulating reading experiences.

This week on Page-Turner, we’ll have a series of excerpts from “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985.” What follows is an introduction by Michael Wood,… ...

Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings, Italo Calvino, Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin, Pantheon: 256 pp. $23 Inventing Calvino - Los Angeles Times ...