To Rachel, my beautiful and lovely motherĬhapter 1 Introduction: Calvino's Life and CircumstancesĬhapter 2 A Neorealistic Path to Literary Exordium: The Path to the Nest of SpidersĬhapter 3 Fantastic and Realistic Webs of ProseĬhapter 4 Our Ancestors: A Viscount, a Baron, and a KnightĬhapter 5 The Speculating Intellectual at the Crossroads: Four NovellasĬhapter 7 An Intellectually Playful Artifice: t ZeroĬhapter 8 The Combinatorial Play of Narrative Possibilities: The Castle of Crossed Destinies; Invisible CitiesĬhapter 9 Calvino's Ultimate Hypernovel: If on a Winter's Night . . .Ĭhapter 10 Posthumously: Under the Jaguar Sun; La Strada di San GiovanniĬhapter 11 Conclusion: The Unredeeming Author: Mr. PalomarĮditor's Preface Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature has been planned as a series of guides for undergraduate and graduate students and nonacademic readers. Like the volumes in its companion series, Understanding Contemporary American Literature, these books provide introductions to the lives and writings of prominent modern authors and explicate their most important works. p. cm. - (Understanding modern European and Latin American literature) Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding Italo Calvino By Beno WeissĬopyright © 1993 University of South Carolina Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Weiss, Beno, 1933– Understanding Italo Calvino / Beno Weiss. UNDERSTANDING MODERN EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE James Hardin, Series Editor ADVISORY BOARD George C. Schoolfield Yale University Theodore Ziolkowski Princeton University Michael Winkler Rice University Charles Porter Yale University Roberto GonzálezEchevarría Yale University Sara CastroKlarén The Johns Hopkins University Understanding Günter Grass by Alan Frank Keele Understanding Graciliano Ramos by Celso Lemos de Oliveira Understanding Gabriel García Márquez by Kathleen McNerney Understanding Claude Simon by Ralph Sarkonak Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa by Sara CastroKlarén Understanding Samuel Beckett by Alan Astro Understanding JeanPaul Sartre by Philip R. Wood Understanding Albert Camus by David R. Ellison Understanding Max Frisch by Wulf Koepke Understanding Erich Maria Remarque by Hans Wagener Understanding Elias Canetti by Richard H. Lawson Understanding Thomas Bernhard by Stephen D. Dowden Understanding Heinrich Böll by Robert C. Conard Understanding Céline by Philip H. Solomon Understanding Gerhart Hauptmann by Warren R. Maurer Understanding José Donoso by Sharon Magnarelli Understanding Milan Kundera by Fred Misurella Understanding Italo Calvino by Beno Weiss
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