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Visitations from the Planet Calvino Christopher Tayler on a collection of Italo Calvino's writings which sheds light on the milieu that shaped him
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Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings
by Italo Calvino
tr by Michael McLaughlin
Jonathan Cape, pounds 16.99, 255 pp
pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
IN AN INTERVIEW he gave in 1984, the novelist Italo Calvino said
that translations of his books had arrived in other countries "like
meteorites, from which critics and readers have to develop an idea of
the planet that they have come from".
When English-language readers began to discover this great Italian
writer, though, Planet Calvino seemed a fairly mysterious place.
True, he had some affinities with Jorge Luis Borges, and ...
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