02615nam 2200445 450 991081455980332120200620155415.01-4744-7090-410.1515/9781474470902(CKB)4100000010673732(MiAaPQ)EBC6141700(DE-B1597)616570(DE-B1597)9781474470902(EXLCZ)99410000001067373220200620d1998 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierItalo Calvino /Martin McLaughlinEdinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,[1998]©19981 online resource (xvi, 190 pages)Writers of Italy : WRIT0-7486-0917-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-184) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter The Apprentice Artisan: The Early Short Stories -- Chapter 2 A Small-scale Epic: The Path to the Spiders' Nests -- Chapter 3 From Neorealism to Fantasy: Our Ancestors -- Chapter 4 (Re)Writing Realism: A Plunge into Real Estate -- Chapter 5 Calvina's Thematics: Sex, Texts and the Secret Watermark of the Universe -- Chapter 6 Experimental Space: The Cosmicomic Stories -- Chapter 7 Experimental Signs: Invisible Cities and The Castle of Crossed Destinies -- Chapter 8 A Borgesian Summa: lf on a Winter's Night a Traveller -- Chapter 9 Words and Silence: The Strange Genesis of Mr Palomar -- Chapter 10 Calvina's Style: Abstract Aspirations for the Next Millennium -- Conclusion -- Appendix Chronology of Calvina's Fictions -- Bibliography -- IndexThis first study in English of the complete writings of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino's main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analyses Calvino's intertextual links with major writers of world literature (Conrad, Stevenson, Hemingway and Borges). Postmodern elements in his texts are assessed, and a chapter on Calvino's critical essays shed important light on his creative process.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / ItalianbisacshLITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.853.914McLaughlin M. L(Martin L.),1669089MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814559803321Italo Calvino4030151UNINA