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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Table of Contents:
- 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