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CALVINO, ITALO

ĭtəlō călvēˈnō, 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 (1959)—brought him international acclaim. Other important works include Cosmicomics (1965, tr. 1968), Italian Folktales (1956, tr. 1980), and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979, tr. 1981).

See his autobiographical essays in The Road to San Giovanni (tr. 1993), and other autobiographical writings in Hermit in Paris (tr. 2003); studies by S. M. Adler (1979) and I. T. Olken (1984).

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Italo Calvino: Eros and Language
Book by Tommasina Gabriele; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994
Subjects:	Calvino, Italo--Criticism And Interpretation
22. Italo Calvino in Giovanna Finocchiaro Chimirri, Italo Calvino tra realtd e favola (Catania, Italy: Cooperativa...Maria Corti, Autografo 2 (Oct. 1985): 49. 24. Italo Calvino, Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il prossimo...

Calvino and the Age of Neorealism: Fables of Estrangement
Book by Lucia Re; Stanford University, 1990
Subjects:	Calvino, Italo--Technique, Realism In Literature, World War, 1939-1945--Literature And The War
...Propp, Morphology , p. xiv. 88. Calvino, introduction, Italian Folktales...published by Einaudi in 1949. 90. Calvino, introduction, Fiabe italiane...useful analysis by Beckwith, "Italo Calvino." Beckwith does not discuss Propps...

Great World Writers: Twentieth Century - Vol. 2
Book by Patrick M. O'Neil; Marshall Cavendish, 2004
Subjects:	Authors--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation, Camus, Albert--1913-1960--Criticism and interpretation, Carpentier, Alejo--1904---Criticism and interpretation, Cesaire, Aime--Criticism and interpretation, Coetzee, J. M.--1940---Criticism and interpretation, Dangarembga, Tsitsi--Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Modern--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Lu, Xun--1881-1936--Criticism and interpretation
...1999. McLattghlin, Martin. Italo Calvino. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University...Weiss, Beno. Understanding Italo Calvino. Columbia: University of South...HIGHLIGHTS IN CALVINOS LIFE 1923 Italo Calvino is born on October 15 in Santiago...

English Language Criticism on the Foreign Novel: 1965-1975
Book by Harriet Semmes Alexander; Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1989
Subjects:	Fiction--History And Criticism--Bibliography
...1, No. 1 1970 , 31-35. CALVINO, ITALO Italian, 1923-1985 GENERAL...66-76. WOODHOUSE, J. R. "Italo Calvino and the Rediscovery of a Genre...rampante, 1957 WOODHOUSE, J. R. Italo Calvino: A Reappraisal And An Appreciation...

Italian Demystified
Book by Marcel Danesi; McGraw-Hill, 2007
Subjects:	Italian Language--Grammar, Italian Language--Problems, Exercises, Etc, Italian Language--Self Instruction, Italian Language--Textbooks For Foreign Speakers--English
...Chi era Rosalba Carriera? Who was Rosalba Carriera? Era una pittrice. She was a painter Chi era Italo Calvino? Who was Italo Calvino? Italo Calvino era un autore. Italo Calvino was an author Chi era Natalia Ginzburg? Who was Natalia Ginzburg...

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Italo Calvino
Journal article by Alan Tinkler; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 22, 2002
Subjects:	Authors--Works, Authorship--Technique, Calvino, Italo--Works, Folklore--Authorship, Religion--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
Italo Calvino. by Alan Tinkler When Italo Calvino died in 1985 at the age of sixty-two, he was working on...Calvino published Italian Folktales: Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino, he included an introduction in which he establishes the...

Italo Calvino and Georges Perec: The Multiple and Contrasting Emotions of Cities and Puzzles
Journal article by Laura Chiesa; The Romanic Review, Vol. 97, 2006
Subjects:	Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation, Calvino, Italo--Works, Emotions--Analysis, Perec, Georges--Criticism and interpretation, Perec, Georges--Works
Italo Calvino and Georges Perec: The Multiple and...inescapable in the literary criticism of Italo Calvino, (1) for Georges Perec the question...between the texts of Calvino and Perec. Italo Calvino and Le citta invisibili: Interdisciplinary...

Italo Calvino: A Journey toward Postmodernism
Journal article by Joseph Francese; International Fiction Review, 2001
Subjects:	Books--Reviews, Italo Calvino: A Journey Toward Postmodernism (Book)--Reviews
Italo Calvino: A Journey Toward Postmodernism by Joseph Francese Constance Markey Italo Calvino: A Journey Toward Postmodernism Gainesville: University Press of Florida...

Semiotics of Re-reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, Italo Calvino
Journal article by Emmanuela Tandello; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, Italo Calvino (Book)--Book reviews
...of Re-reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, Italo Calvino. by Emmanuela Tandello Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, Italo Calvino. By ANTHONY JULIAN TANIBURRI. Madison and Teaneck...

Italo Calvino Paroliere
Journal article by Angela M. Jeannet; Italian Culture, Vol. 18, 2000
Subjects:	Italy--Social aspects, Music and society--Italy, Music, Italian, Popular culture, Popular music--Italy
Italo Calvino Paroliere. by Angela M. Jeannet Chiunque...nella biografia politica e letteraria di Italo Calvino, come diversi studiosi hanno notato...Ignazio Buttitta, Valentino Bucchi e Italo Calvino, e piu tardi Margherita Galante Garrone...

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Ingenuous and Not at All Austere - A Profile of Italo Calvino
Magazine article by Linda Simon; World and I, Vol. 16, January 2001
...at All Austere - A Profile of Italo Calvino. by LINDA SIMON Linda Simon is...volatility of postwar Italy, Italo Calvino, like many of his European contemporaries...chance will win the battles." Italo Calvino was born on October 15, 1923...

The Mushroom Moon
Magazine article by Italo Calvino; New Statesman, Vol. 138, May 18, 2009
Subjects:	Moon--Personal narratives, The Complete Cosmicomics (Novel)--Excerpts
The Mushroom Moon. by Italo Calvino According to Sir George Darwin...everything that is. CThe Estate of Italo Calvino, 2002. Translation CMartin McLaughlin...sterling25. A short story by Italo Calvino Illustration by Danny Allison

Six Themes for the Next Millenium
Magazine article by Juhani Pallasmaa; The Architectural Review, Vol. 196, July 1994
Subjects:	Architecture--Analysis, Millennium--Forecasts
...Memos for the Next Millennium Italo Calvino, the writer of The Invisible...language of timeless reality. Italo Calvino describes our incapability to...University Press, 1991. (5)Calvino, Italo Six Memos for the Next Millennium...

Six Journeys into Architectural Reality
Magazine article by Marja-Riitta Norri, Hildi Hawkins; The Architectural Review, Vol. 199, April 1996
Subjects:	Architecture--Analysis
...next millennium Ten years ago, Italo Calvino prepared a series of lectures...space and past events, writes Italo Calvino. The definition encompasses the...collected by Juhani Pallasmaa Italo Calvino: Nakymattomat kaupungit (Invisible...

The Music of Richard Rijnvos: Square Dances
Magazine article by Christopher Fox; Musical Times, Vol. 140, Winter 1999
...she: Its inconceivable! After Beckett, Italo Calvino. To date the Rijnvos catalogue only lists one Calvino-inspired concert work, Palomar (1994...Mr Palomar.7 In it, as in other late Calvino works, a single central subject is explored...

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Italo Calvino's Autobiographical Notes Collected to Good Effect
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 15, 2003
Subjects:	Calvino, Italo
Italo Calvinos autobiographical notes collected...14 autobiographical pieces by the late Italo Calvino, the volume will be of most interest...PARIS: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS By Italo Calvino Translated from the Italian by Martin...

Fantasies in Space and Time
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 4, 2009
Subjects:	Calvino, Italo
...COMPLETE COSMICOMICS by Italo Calvino translations by Martin...with a little backstory. Italo Calvinos initial set of...to repeat the miracle, Calvino, obviously and justifiably...Capricious fantasies: Italo Calvinos original Cosmicomics...

BOOK REVIEWS: The Birmingham Book Festival Supported by BIRMINGHAM POST; My Favourite Book
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 14, 2006
Subjects:	Festivals
...Festival Supported by BIRMINGHAM POST; My Favourite Book. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino If there is one book responsible for the fact that I am a writer, it must be Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities. In this extraordinary work, Kublai Khan, emperor...

CALORIFIC CRUISING! Jaci Stephen Tucks into Ice Cream and Chocolate on a 'Get-Fit' Cruise
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 9, 2011
...AND TO READ? I USUALLY read books relating to the countries Im in. For Italy, Id recommend Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a novel that evokes imaginary cities. COLIN THUBRONS latest travel book, To A Mountain In Tibet (Chatto Windus...

Essays That Defend the Right Words
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, March 4, 2001
...Told" takes off from the story of Scheherazade to think about the contemporary writing of such as Joseph Roth and Italo Calvino. The thought of Marcel Proust seeing himself as Scheherazade is piquant, and that suggesting we all are under sentence...

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encyclopedia articles on: Calvino Italo - 3 results

Calvino, Italo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CALVINO, ITALO it lo calve no, 1923 85, Italian novelist. Calvino was one of the most popular novelists of the 20th cent...Natalia Levi Ginzburg. During the 1950s, however, Calvino turned to fantasy and allegory. His trilogy of historical...

Italian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...works. Major 20th-century novelists of note include Italo Svevo , Alberto Moravia , Giuseppe di Lampedusa , Elio Vittorini , Cesare Pavese , Italo Calvino , Pier Paolo Pasolini , Carlo Gadda , Leonardo Sciascia...

Magic Realism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cortazar , and Mexicos Carlos Fuentes . Non-Latin American writers whose fiction often employs magic realism include Italo Calvino and Salman Rushdie . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the...

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