Hermit in Paris

ISBN-13: 9780141189758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str.

Italo Calvino

Opis

This volume of posthumously collected personal writings of Italo Calvino range from the early 1950s to his last interview, completed before his death in 1985. It examines major 20th-century events from a personal viewpoint, and provide a homage to his adoptive city, Paris.

O autorze

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 Siena in 1985.