Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature / / Eugenio Bolongaro.
Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Italy at the Crossroads, 1943-1963 -- Chapter Two. Italo Calvino: From Neorealism to the Fantastic -- Chapter Three. The Baron in the Trees: The Utopian Moment in Calvino's Fantastic Trilogy -- Chapter Four. The Non-existent Knight: Obstinacy without Illusions -- Chapter Five. The Watcher: The Intellectual in the Labyrinth -- Conclusion: Literature as an Ethical Project -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino's development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more 'political' reading of Calvino's later work.Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature firmly situates Calvino within his historical context ? the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy ? by relating these early novels to Calvino's political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino's work in a new light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino's early writings, Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies scholars. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442676343 9783110667691 9783110490954 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442676343 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Eugenio Bolongaro. |