LEADER 02615nam 2200445 450 001 9910814559803321 005 20200620155415.0 010 $a1-4744-7090-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781474470902 035 $a(CKB)4100000010673732 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6141700 035 $a(DE-B1597)616570 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781474470902 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010673732 100 $a20200620d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aItalo Calvino /$fMartin McLaughlin 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d[1998] 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 190 pages) 225 0 $aWriters of Italy : WRIT 311 $a0-7486-0917-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [174]-184) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter The Apprentice Artisan: The Early Short Stories -- $tChapter 2 A Small-scale Epic: The Path to the Spiders' Nests -- $tChapter 3 From Neorealism to Fantasy: Our Ancestors -- $tChapter 4 (Re)Writing Realism: A Plunge into Real Estate -- $tChapter 5 Calvina's Thematics: Sex, Texts and the Secret Watermark of the Universe -- $tChapter 6 Experimental Space: The Cosmicomic Stories -- $tChapter 7 Experimental Signs: Invisible Cities and The Castle of Crossed Destinies -- $tChapter 8 A Borgesian Summa: lf on a Winter's Night a Traveller -- $tChapter 9 Words and Silence: The Strange Genesis of Mr Palomar -- $tChapter 10 Calvina's Style: Abstract Aspirations for the Next Millennium -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix Chronology of Calvina's Fictions -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis 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of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino's main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analyses Calvino's intertextual links with major writers of world literature (Conrad, Stevenson, Hemingway and Borges).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. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian$2bisacsh 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. 676 $a853.914 700 $aMcLaughlin$b M. L$g(Martin L.),$01669089 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814559803321 996 $aItalo Calvino$94030151 997 $aUNINA