Italo Calvino said this. And these words resonate with the personal and professional journey of Marta Zuddas, who is deaf, but with a determination and willpower that have helped her overcome all ...

Kristi Siegel, Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics: Qfwfg's Postmodern Autobiography, Italica, Vol. 68, No. 1, Perspectives on the Novecento (Spring, 1991), pp. 43-59 ...

Walking tours are dime a dozen. Name a city, there is a walk: monuments, landmarks, gardens—live postcards put together by local luminaries who are passionate about their town, its past and its ...

JoAnn Cannon, THE IMAGE OF THE CITY IN THE NOVELS OF ITALO CALVINO, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE MODERN NOVEL AND THE CITY (Spring 1978), pp. 83-90 ...

Italo Calvino didn’t escape reality; he reimagined it from the inside out. His stories don’t shout; they whisper until the noise fades. When life feels too still or too loud, his words remind you that ...

Italo Calvino, Saggi 1945–1985, ed. by Mario Barenghi (Milan: Mondadori, 1995), p. 266 (henceforth abbreviated as S); Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction à la littérature fantastique (Paris: Seuil, 1970).

The 2025 Latin American Foto Festival Grapples with Extremes In images of displacement, resilience and community power, the Bronx Documentary Center brings urgent and emotionally resonant stories ...

The premature death of Italo Calvino made front-page news in Italy. In the Corriere della Sera John Updike, the writer responsible for introducing him to the Americans, wrote that Calvino’s death had ...

With David Duke as a godfather, perhaps it’s no surprise that Adrianne Black ended up on the far right. Since breaking with this toxic political scene, she’s been speaking to audiences about the ...

Numbers in the Dark is an assorted lot of short and very short texts by Italo Calvino, and it is oddly difficult to know how to set about reading it. Paradoxically, coming up against the problem of ...