The Road to San Giovanni
Italo Calvino author Martin McLaughlin editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:28th May '09
£9.99
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In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino's alchemical brilliance.
These autobiographical essays marvellously reconstitute different strata of his past in all the pristine, warm stir of immediacy * Sunday Times *
In these personal essays, Calvino dives into his memory and childhood with great warmth -- John Self
I propose a new adjective, calvinoid - as in a calvinoid construct, an impossible and beautiful structure spun out of the detritus of the quotidian . . . the scientific precision of his imagination and his carnivalesque delight in irony and absurdity . . . His legacy is an atlas full of calvinoid constructs, invisible cities, that will dazzle the lucky explorer -- Clive Sinclair * Independent *
ISBN: 9780141189710
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm
Weight: 89g
112 pages