Italo Calvino
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Hit by a cannonball in an ancient war against the Turks, the titular viscount survives to become two people, the good guy and the bad guy. Things being what they are, though, in fantasy and in fact, neither of these figures gets on all that well with his compatriots, and only an end to the division can bring the story to a happy end. Topics like evolution, the distance of the moon from the earth, life as a mollusc, the last dinosaurs, messages from space all receive ironic and imaginative treatment.
As Calvino says in a letter, joking and telling the truth as usual, "Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. They are too far apart to fire at each other, and there is no wind, so they cannot move. Many commentators have seen an allegory of Italian politics and the cold war in this tale, but the narrator Donald Duck who sailed with Drake is not giving anything away. Hermit in Paris - Autobiographical essays, bringing politics, writing and reading into close contact.
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In his brother Floriano, a future geologist of international acclaim and prefect of the University of Genova, is born. Calvino spends his childhood on an estate abounding in exotic trees and plants, in the woods of the Maritime Alps, and on the rocks of the Italian Riviera. As a child, he prefers reading novels and poetry to the scientific studies his parents wish him to pursue. He remains in San Remo for twenty years. Starts studying agronomy at the University of Turin, where his father was professor of Tropical Agriculture.
During the German occupation, Calvino joins the Italian Resistance and fights the Germans in the Ligurian mountains as a member of the Garibaldi Brigades. Calvino was later to write that it was during this time that he came to know the art of story-telling, when the partisans would recount their latest escapades over the campfire. After the liberation, he settles in Turin where he studies Literature at the University.
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Graduates from the University with a thesis on Joseph Conrad. He collaborates on the weekly Il Politecnico directed by Elio Vittorini and on the newspaper L'Unita and joins the editorial staff of the publishing house Einaudi. Here he meets Cesare Pavese and Vittorini, two neo-realist writers who share literary ideas with Calvino and introduce him to Leftist politics.
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It is the story of a boy from the slums who joins the partisans. It is published in and sells 6, copies, an unusually high number at that time. That same year he wins the Premio Riccione. Later, Calvino describes Path as "the book of a very young man. Also, either the translator or the publishers of the first English edition also altered or removed certain passages considered unsuitable for the sexual and political climate of the s.
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To read the version revised by Calvino, as well as Calvino's revealing preface, see The Path to the Spiders' Nests , published in by Ecco Press. To better understand the author's voice at the time of the novel's writing, read the first English or American editions or, better yet, the Einaudi edition. He leaves Einaudi to work full-time on the staff at L'Unita.
He begins to collaborate on the communist weekly Rinascita. Ultimo viene il corvo - stories subsequently published in Difficult Loves In January he rejoins Einaudi as an editor.
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Einaudi publishes a new collection entitled La Piccola Biblioteca Scientifica-Letteraria and Calvino is responsible for the literary volumes. On the 27th of August Cesare Pavese commits suicide. During the s Calvino is collecting folk tales from all over Italy. From studying Propp's Morphology of the Folktale , he becomes particularly interested in the shape and functions of the story. Finishes a realistic tale, I giovanni del Po , which he will publish a few years later in the magazine Officina.
In the summer he completes Il Visconte Dimezzato. He travels to the Soviet Union. His journal entries and correspondence from this trip is published in L'Unita between February and March of and earns him the Premio Saint-Vincent. On the 25th of October his father passes away. Calvino inaugurates a new literary style, between the fable and the fantastic. In the final months of this year he also publishes the first stories that will form Marcovaldo.
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (–), the. Italo Calvino, (born October 15, , Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba—died September 19, , Siena, Italy), Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century.
Calvino returned to Turin in and began openly studying literature. He joined the Communist Party; while he completed his degree, he wrote and edited for Communist and left-wing magazines. Calvino graduated in and published his first novel, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno The Path to the Nest of Spiders , in the same year. The novel centered on his experiences in World War II.
His short stories were well-regarded, while the novels were less successful. Calvino's life began to shift in the late 's. He had an affair from to with an older Italian actress named Elsa De Giorgi. Calvino's literary works turned from realism and stories of war to satire and fantasy.
The author visited the United States in and was particularly taken by New York. Calvino moved to Paris in , where he met Argentinian translator Esther Judith "Chichita" Singer, whom he married in Calvino also met the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara during this period.