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 Paperback, 153 pages Harvest Books List Price: $14.00. Salman Rushdie's most recent book is The Enchantress of Florence. He is addicted to playing tennis and baseball on Nintendo Wii ...

Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities (1972) is a book teeming with paradoxes: it is prose, but feels like poetry; it is very erudite, you feel the author has swallowed a whole library, ...

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 ...

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities might be labeled travelogue. It was, in fact, the traveler in me that first fell under its spell. The places Calvino describes, though, don't exist on any map.

Just consider the following picture. In 1959, the thirty-six-year-old Italo Calvino took the boat from Italy to New York. His career as a novelist had begun more than a decade earlier, with the ...

There’s a beautiful novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino called Invisible Cities, which narrates a fictional encounter between Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and a certain young Venetian explorer.Nearing ...

The just-released Italo Calvino: Letters, covering over 40 years of the acclaimed writer's life, were selected by MIchael Wood, professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton. Wood ...