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The Road to San Giovanni

(Vintage Classics)

By Italo Calvino, Tim Parks (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780099388517

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This major testament by Italo Calvino is composed of of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work. The title piece, "The Road to San Giovanni," poignantly evokes his childhood home. "A Cinema-Goer's Autobiography" tells of his adolescence, when he was riveted by American Continue

This major testament by Italo Calvino is composed of of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work. The title piece, "The Road to San Giovanni," poignantly evokes his childhood home. "A Cinema-Goer's Autobiography" tells of his adolescence, when he was riveted by American films starring Gary COoper, Clark Gable, and others. "Memories of a Battle" is at once a reminiscence of his experience ina partisan unit during World War II and a reflection on the rolse of real and imagined memories. "La Poubelle Agréée" is a Parisian set piece, and "From the Opaque" is essentially his writer's credo.

In The Road to San Giovanni, brilliantly translated by Tim Parks, the originality, grace, wit, and wisdom that we have come to associate with Calvino are everywhere on display.


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  • Agile Among the Tombs

    Literary remains are sad affairs, usually because they are remains: embers, litter, scrapings of already well-scraped barrels. The case of Italo Calvino, who died in September 1985 at the age of sixty-two, is also sad, but for different reasons. The ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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  • I was throwing away books to clear space for future new ones and when I came across this book, I planned to finish it off asap and throw it away. Yet, the autobiography was so lyrical and vivid it's like magic which transplanted you to another world Calvino lived it.

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