Italo Calvino / / Martin McLaughlin.
This first study in English of the complete writings of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino's main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analyses Calvino's intertextual links with major writers of world literature (Conrad, Stevenson,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Writers of Italy : WRIT
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter The Apprentice Artisan: The Early Short Stories
- Chapter 2 A Small-scale Epic: The Path to the Spiders' Nests
- Chapter 3 From Neorealism to Fantasy: Our Ancestors
- Chapter 4 (Re)Writing Realism: A Plunge into Real Estate
- Chapter 5 Calvina's Thematics: Sex, Texts and the Secret Watermark of the Universe
- Chapter 6 Experimental Space: The Cosmicomic Stories
- Chapter 7 Experimental Signs: Invisible Cities and The Castle of Crossed Destinies
- Chapter 8 A Borgesian Summa: lf on a Winter's Night a Traveller
- Chapter 9 Words and Silence: The Strange Genesis of Mr Palomar
- Chapter 10 Calvina's Style: Abstract Aspirations for the Next Millennium
- Conclusion
- Appendix Chronology of Calvina's Fictions
- Bibliography
- Index