Italo Calvino Hermit in Paris (Penguin Modern Classics)

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 Italo Calvino , 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 Sienna in 1985. Zusammenfassung Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. This volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we may ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers.

Product details

• Authors: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin
• Assisted by: Martin McLaughlin (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780141189758
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118975-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 202 g
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, Autobiography: writers