LEADER 03746nam 22005895 450 001 9910823935903321 005 20231025131342.0 010 $a1-299-28362-4 010 $a1-4008-4624-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400846245 035 $a(CKB)2560000000099580 035 $a(EBL)1114870 035 $a(OCoLC)830938985 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835625 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11462252 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835625 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10997585 035 $a(PQKB)10356456 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1114870 035 $a(DE-B1597)453878 035 $a(OCoLC)979905370 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400846245 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000099580 100 $a20190708d2013 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aItalo Calvino $eLetters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition /$fItalo Calvino 205 $aUpdated 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (641 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-16243-3 311 $a0-691-13945-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction /$rWood, Michael --$tTranslator'S Note /$rMcLaughlin, Martin --$tAbbreviations --$t1941-1945 --$t1946-1950 --$t1951-1955 --$t1956-1960 --$t1961-1965 --$t1966-1970 --$t1971-1975 --$t1976-1980 --$t1981-1985 --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThis 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 party in 1957, his eye-opening trip to the United States in 1959-60, his move to Paris (where he lived from 1967 to 1980), and his trip to his birthplace in Cuba (where he met Che Guevara). Some lengthy letters amount almost to critical essays, while one is an appropriately brief defense of brevity, and there is an even shorter, reassuring note to his parents written on a scrap of paper while he and his brother were in hiding during the antifascist Resistance.This is a book that will fascinate and delight Calvino fans and anyone else interested in a remarkable portrait of a great writer at work. 606 $aAuthors, Italian$y20th century$vCorrespondence 615 0$aAuthors, Italian 676 $a856.914 700 $aCalvino$b Italo$011716 701 $aMcLaughlin$b Martin$0221465 701 $aWood$b Michael$0304338 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823935903321 996 $aItalo Calvino$94118432 997 $aUNINA