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<p>Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: <I>The Young People of Po</I>, <I>The Cloven Viscount</I>,<I> The Baron in the Trees</I>, <I>The Non-Existent Knight</I>, and <I>The Watcher</I>, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino's development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more 'political' reading of Calvino's later work.</p><p><I>Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature</I> firmly situates Calvino within his historical context – the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy – by relating these early novels to Calvino's political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino's work in a new light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works

Author

Eugenio Bolongaro

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442676343