The myopic eye: Calvino's travels in the USA and the USSR.(Italo Calvino)(Critical Essay)

The Modern Language Review | October 1, 2005| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

This article presents Italo Calvino's little-studied travel writing, concentrating on two texts: Diario americano 1959-60 and Taccuino di viaggio nell'Unione Sovietica, his accounts of journeys to the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Calvino's interests as a traveller are examined, in particular his close attention to the minutiae of daily life and his less satisfactory attempts to understand the bigger picture. A comparison of these texts with La forma del tempo and Palomar demonstrates how Calvino developed important themes from the ...

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