Italian Folktales

Informationen zum Autor Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985. Klappentext One of the most inventive of European writers and a master of allegorical fantasy, Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 but grew up in Italy and spent most of his life there. An essayist and journalist, as well as a writer of fiction, he was awarded the prestigious Italian literary award, the Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. Zusammenfassung Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to folk literature.

Product details

• Authors: Italo Calvino, George Martin
• Assisted by: George Martin (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2000
• EAN: 9780141181349
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118134-9
• No. of pages: 800
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Italy, Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary