Italo Calvino

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

A major testament by an essential 20th century writer composed of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work--now available in paperback. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and adolescence, his experiences during WWII, and more. "Storytelling at its …

Le Baron perché est un roman écrit par Italo Calvino, publié en 1957 par Einaudi. Ce livre s'inscrit dans la trilogie intituée Nos ancêtres, entre Le Vicomte pourfendu et Le Chevalier inexistant. Il raconte la vie au XVIIIᵉ siècle d'un jeune aristocrate de la Ligurie du nom de Côme Laverse du Rondeau qui décide, un …

Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The lectures were originally written in Italian and translated by Patrick Creagh. The lectures were to be given …