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This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as __Cosmicomics__, __Invisible Cities__, and __If on a Winter's Night a Traveler__. But he was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Leonardo Sciascia, Natalia Ginzburg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luciano Berio. This book includes a generous selection of about 650 letters, written between World War II and the end of Calvino's life. Selected and introduced by Michael Wood, the letters are expertly rendered into English and annotated by well-known Calvino translator Martin McLaughlin. The letters are filled with insights about Calvino's writing and that of others; about Italian, American, English, and French literature; about literary criticism and literature in general; and about culture and politics. The book also provides a kind of autobiography, documenting Calvino's Communism and his resignation from the pa

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Author

Italo Calvino; selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691139456

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14