Invisible citizen

From: The Village Voice | Date: April 30, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

When Italo Met MLK

HERMIT IN PARIS

By Italo Calvino

Pantheon, 272 pp., $23

"In the old days the really popular writers were totally anonymous," writes Italo Calvino, "and this gave them an extraordinary mystique." Fortunately for his admirers, the autobiographical texts collected in Hermit in Paris will do little to dispel Calvino's mystique, and only slightly more to bring the Italian writer forth from anonymity. The essays, interviews, and questionnaires that Calvino kept in a folder called "Autobiographical Pieces," discovered by his wife after his death, were mostly written for ...

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