The Written World and the Unwritten World

A scintillating collection of essays that encapsulates the great Italian writer''s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature, now available in English for the first time br>br>Reading, writing, translating; the avant-garde and tradition; the fate of the novel: these are just some of the themes of The Written World and the Unwritten World. A collection of essays, forewords, articles, interviews, notes, and other occasional pieces, this work displays Calvino''s remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp wit as he explores the meaning of literature in a rapidly changing world. Drawn from the Italian collections Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (2002), Sulla fiaba (1988), and uncollected essays, this volume of previously untranslated work - now rendered in English by Ann Goldstein - is a major statement in literary criticism.>

Product details

• Authors: Italo Calvino, Calvino Italo
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.11.2015
• EAN: 9780141394923
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139492-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000