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HERMIT IN PARIS

Italo Calvino

Jonathan Cape, 16 pounds 99 pence.

ITALO Calvino's earliest childhood memory was of an incident that took place in 1926 when he was three years old. He and his parents were sitting down to eat in their comfortable home in north-west Italy. Suddenly the elderly professor who lodged with them burst in, his clothes in disarray, his face covered with blood. He had been beaten up in the street by Fascists.

Calvino - one the most celebrated and influential writers of the 20th century - grew up during Mussolini's heyday. One of the essays in this book - which Calvino ...

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