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The Road to San Giovanni
Italo Calvino
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Description for The Road to San Giovanni
Paperback. Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. Translator(s): Parks, Tim; Creagh, Patrick; McLaughlin, Martin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 90.
In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino's alchemical brilliance.
In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino's alchemical brilliance.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141189710
SKU
V9780141189710
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99-36
About Italo Calvino
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Road to San Giovanni
These autobiographical essays marvellously reconstitute different strata of his past in all the pristine, warm stir of immediacy
Sunday Times
In these personal essays, Calvino dives into his memory and childhood with great warmth
John Self I propose a new adjective, calvinoid - as in a calvinoid construct, an impossible and beautiful structure spun out of the ... Read more
Sunday Times
In these personal essays, Calvino dives into his memory and childhood with great warmth
John Self I propose a new adjective, calvinoid - as in a calvinoid construct, an impossible and beautiful structure spun out of the ... Read more