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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 work

Author

Eugenio Bolongaro

Publisher

Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802087638

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance