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Italo Calvino

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Italo Calvino , 1923-85, Italian novelist. Calvino was one of the most popular novelists of the 20th cent. Although loneliness is an essential condition in his writings, he imbues his stories with passion and celebrates the human capacity for love and imagination. During the 1940s, he was associated with Italian neo-realist writers, such as Elio Vittorini, Cesare Pavese, and Natalia Levi Ginzburg. During the 1950s, however, Calvino turned to fantasy and allegory. His trilogy of historical fantasies— The Cloven Viscount (1952), The Baron in the Trees (1957), and The Nonexistent Knight... Read more
Italo Calvino
Encyclopedia of World Biography Italo Calvino One of modern Italy's most important men of letters, Italo Calvino (1923-1985), blended fantasy, fable ... process redefined the literary forms. Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923. His father ... Read more
Neorealism
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... resulted from the intense feelings inspired by fascist repression, the Resistance, and the war. Neorealist writers include Italo Calvino , Alberto Moravia , and Cesare Pavese . During the fascist years many Neorealist writers went into hiding, were imprisoned ... Read more

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Italo Calvino.
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 3/22/2002; Tinkler, Alan; 787 words ; When Italo Calvino died in 1985 at ... condition. In 1956, when Calvino published Italian ... Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino, he included an ... agronomy. By 1925 the Calvino family had returned to its native Italy, Italo's namesake. They ... Read more
Posthumous collections give insights on Joseph Heller and Italo Calvino.
The Seattle Times (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 3/20/2003; 787 words ; ... Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin ... collections by Italian writer Italo Calvino ( Invisible Cities ) and American ... yield some surprises. But it's the Calvino that offers greater rewards. The ... Read more
Posthumous collections give insights on Joseph Heller and Italo Calvino.(The Seattle Times)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/26/2003; Upchurch, Michael; 787 words ; ... Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin ... collections by Italian writer Italo Calvino ( Invisible Cities ) and American ... yield some surprises. But it's the Calvino that offers greater rewards. The ... Read more
Italo Calvino and Georges Perec: the multiple and contrasting emotions of cities and puzzles.(Critical essay)
The Romanic Review; 5/1/2006; Chiesa, Laura; 787 words ; ... the literary criticism of Italo Calvino, (1) for Georges Perec the ... disjunctions that pass between Calvino's Le citta invisibili and ... potentielle (1981), was suggested by Calvino. (3) The words atlas and potential ... literature and with geographical maps not yet drawn, but rather ... these ... Read more
Visitations from the Planet Calvino Christopher Tayler on a collection of Italo Calvino's writings which sheds light on the milieu that shaped him
The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/9/2003; CHRISTOPHER TAYLER; 622 words ; ... Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino tr by Michael McLaughlin Jonathan ... he gave in 1984, the novelist Italo Calvino said that translations of his ... Italian writer, though, Planet Calvino seemed a fairly mysterious place ... Read more
Tales of the unexpected Christopher Tayler enjoys 'uncanny tales', chosen by Italo Calvino
The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/13/2002; Christopher Tayler; 413 words ; ... Visionary and Everyday ed by Italo Calvino Penguin Classics, pounds 10.99 ... Sciascia, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Italo Calvino - Pasolini is today remembered ... relatively little-known outside Italy. Calvino, on the other hand, still commands ... Read more
Being Calvino; The New Book of Scrapes; Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino
The Stranger; 7/2/2003; Anonymous; 349 words ; ITALO CALVINO is best known as a fabulist, a spinner ... autobiographical texts, you sense a kind of revulsion Calvino feels when the fame of the writer overtakes ... Hermit seems to want to be a kind of Calvino-esque exercise, an autobiography that undermines ... Read more
Books: Italian sauce from a practical joker Hermit in Paris: autobiographical writings Italo Calvino, trans. Martin McLaughlin Jonathan Cape pounds 16.99, 284pp pounds 14.99 (plus pounds 1.99 p&p per order) from 0870 8001122
The Independent - London; 3/29/2003; Aamer Hussein; 437 words ; RESIDENT IN Turin in 1953, Italo Calvino writes in praise of those qualities ... political moralities, presenting Calvino's lively, generous mind in dialogue with the dilemmas of his time. Calvino's voice, in a series of early self-portrai ... Read more
Italo Calvino's autobiographical notes collected to good effect.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times; 6/15/2003; 787 words ; ... autobiographical pieces by the late Italo Calvino, the volume will be of most interest ... the best in the book, although Calvino's journal of his six-month tour ... majority of Hermit in Paris recounts Calvino's political awakening and subsequent ... Read more
BOOKS: A guide to never-ending artichokes Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino Cape pounds 16.99 The Story Begins by Amos Oz Chatto pounds 12.99
The Independent - London; 7/11/1999; KIERNAN RYAN; 787 words ; ... millennium of the novel," writes Italo Calvino at the close of his essay on Tirant ... for that task than Messrs Oz and Calvino. For Amos Oz, the secret of the ... the best novel ever written", Calvino betrays no sign of sharing Oz's ... Read more

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