Description
Spanning more than three decades, this collection gathers a scattering of Italo Calvino’s literary writings—from essays and reviews to interviews—tracing his evolving ideas about language, imagination, and the writer’s responsibility in a changing world. Across these pieces, Calvino confronts the “plague” of abstraction and distortion, arguing for the survival of a direct, concrete mode of expression while probing the mysterious spaces where meaning is made and unmade. Readers follow his high-level reflections on life and literature as he considers how stories are constructed, how they resist simplification, and how the unwritten—what remains unsaid, unformed, or beyond reach—haunts the written page. With Calvino’s distinctive clarity and intellectual playfulness, these writings illuminate the craft behind the art and the philosophical stakes behind every sentence.
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paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2022
240 pages
ISBN: 9780141394923
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
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