Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted
readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like
stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy;
he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works
include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a
winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985.
Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena
Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he
is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published
academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and
Italo Calvino among many others.
Enthusiasm and intelligence: these are the essential qualities of
the critic. Calvino, himself a novelist of rare quality, possessed
both generously. This is a book to read for itself, and also
because it will send you back to other books to read, either again
in a new way, or for the first time... Superb
*Daily Telegraph*
This volume itself is a classic book at bedtime, a seductive
invitation to forgotten opportunities or rereading
*The Times*
A master’s guidance on everything from the ancient Greeks to Ernest
Hemingway, proving that “a classic is a book that has never
finished saying what it has to say.” This timeless description
applies to Calvino’s own books too
*John Self*
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