The Road to San Giovanni

ISBN-13: 9780141189710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 112 str.

Italo Calvino

Opis

This collection of autobiographical essays range from a lyrical portrait of the author's relationship with his father to a perceptive essay on his own youthful obsession with cinema.

Recenzje

These autobiographical essays marvellously reconstitute different strata of his past in all the pristine, warm stir of immediacy Sunday Times

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.