The Watcher and Other Stories

The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy's most imaginative writer. ?Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us? (John Updike, New Yorker).Translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

About the author

ITALO CALVINO (1923–1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century’s greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His works have been translated into dozens of languages.

Summary

The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy’s most imaginative writer. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us” (John Updike, New Yorker).Translated by William Weaver and Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Product details

• Authors: Italo Calvino
• Assisted by: Archibald Colquhoun (Translation), William Weaver (Translation)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.1975
• EAN: 9780156949521
• ISBN: 978-0-15-694952-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 209 g
• Series: Harbrace Paperbound Library; Harbrace Paperbound Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Romance / Suspense, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION: Thrillers / Technological, FICTION: Nature & the Environment