The Road to San Giovanni
Italo CalvinoPublished1995
Pages160
Formatpaperback
PublisherRandom House of Canada, Limited
Synopsis
This major testament by Italo Calvino is composed of of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work. The title piece, "The Road to San Giovanni," poignantly evokes his childhood home. "A Cinema-Goer's Autobiography" tells of his adolescence, when he was riveted by American films starring Gary COoper, Clark Gable, and others. "Memories of a Battle" is at once a reminiscence of his experience ina partisan unit during World War II and a reflection on the rolse of real and imagined memories. "La Poubelle Agréée" is a Parisian set piece, and "From the Opaque" is essentially his writer's credo.
In The Road to San Giovanni, brilliantly translated by Tim Parks, the originality, grace, wit, and wisdom that we have come to associate with Calvino are everywhere on display.
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About Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino
1923–1985
Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de *I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,* uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. ---------- Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the *Our Ancestors* trilogy (1952–1959), the *Cosmicomics* collection of short stories (1965), and the novels *Invisible Cities* (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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