Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

Author of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

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About the Author

Italo Calvino 1923-1984 Novelist and short story writer Italo Calvino was born in Cuba on October 15, 1923, and grew up in Italy, graduating from the University of Turin in 1947. He is remembered for his distinctive style of fables. Much of his first work was political, including Il Sentiero dei show more Nidi di Ragno (The Path of the Nest Spiders, 1947), considered one of the main novels of neorealism. In the 1950s, Calvino began to explore fantasy and myth as extensions of realism. Il Visconte Dimezzato (The Cloven Knight, 1952), concerns a knight split in two in combat who continues to live on as two separates, one good and one bad, deprived of the link which made them a moral whole. In Il Barone Rampante (Baron in the Trees, 1957), a boy takes to the trees to avoid eating snail soup and lives an entire, fulfilled life without ever coming back down. Calvino was awarded an honorary degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1984 and died in 1985, following a cerebral hemorrhage. At the time of his death, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer and a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979) 12,518 copies

Invisible Cities (1972) 9,372 copies

The Baron in the Trees (1957) 4,610 copies

Cosmicomics (1965) 3,184 copies

Italian Folktales (1956) 2,348 copies

The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1969) 2,094 copies

Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988) 2,048 copies

Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City (1963) 2,044 copies

Mr. Palomar (1983) 1,982 copies

Difficult Loves (1958) 1,758 copies

The Path to the Spiders' Nests (1947) 1,685 copies

Why Read the Classics? (1991) 1,574 copies

The Cloven Viscount (1952) 1,401 copies

The Nonexistent Knight (1959) 1,388 copies

The Nonexistent Knight / The Cloven Viscount (1952) 1,133 copies

Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories (1993) 1,116 copies

The Complete Cosmicomics (1997) 1,063 copies

Our Ancestors (1960) 1,023 copies

t zero (1967) 918 copies

The Uses of Literature (1980) 913 copies

Under the Jaguar Sun (1986) 814 copies

Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings (1994) 522 copies

The Road to San Giovanni (1990) 487 copies

The Watcher and Other Stories (1971) 452 copies

Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1983) — Editor — 432 copies

Adam, One Afternoon (1952) 283 copies

Collection of Sand (1984) 268 copies

La giornata d'uno scrutatore (1963) 261 copies

Orlando furioso di Ludovico Ariosto raccontato da Italo Calvino : con una scelta del poema (1995) 251 copies

Last Comes the Raven (1949) 237 copies

Into the War (1954) 218 copies

Ten Italian Folktales (1995) 157 copies

A Plunge into Real Estate (1957) 146 copies

Romanzi e racconti volume 1 (1991) 138 copies

The Written World And The Unwritten World: Essays (2002) 125 copies

The Distance of the Moon (2018) 121 copies

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 (2000) 115 copies

I Racconti (1958) 94 copies

Romanzi e racconti volume 2 (1991) 92 copies

Oulipo Laboratory: Texts from the Bibliotheque Oulipienne (Anti-Classics of Dada.) (1995) 90 copies

Difficult Loves (with Smog and A Plunge Into Real Estate) (1983) 88 copies

Fiabe italiane, volume 1 (1971) 83 copies

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler / Invisible Cities / The Baron in the Trees (1957) 80 copies

La nuvola di smog e la formica argentina (1958) 65 copies

Romanzi e racconti volume 3 (1994) 64 copies

The Queen's Necklace (2011) 47 copies

Sulla fiaba (1988) 46 copies

Fantastic Tales {Vol. 1} (1987) 45 copies

Fantastic Tales {Vol. 2} (1983) 45 copies

La memoria del mondo e altre storie cosmicomiche (1968) 44 copies

Aventures (1964) 44 copies

Piccola cosmogonia portatile (1950) — Author — 42 copies

Fiabe italiane, volume 2 (1956) 41 copies

Penguin Modern Classics: The Complete List (2011) 40 copies

I libri degli altri (1991) 34 copies

Fiabe italiane, volume 3 (1986) 30 copies

Saggi: 1945-1985 (I meridiani) (Italian Edition) (1995) 27 copies

Tämä vaikea elämä (1979) 21 copies

Difficult Loves & Marcovaldo (1982) 19 copies

Marcovaldo oder Die Jahreszeiten in der Stadt. Der Tag eines Wahlhelfers. (1988) 18 copies

Abenteuer eines Reisenden. Erzählungen. (1988) 18 copies

The Narrative of Trajan's Column (Penguin Great Ideas) (2020) 18 copies

Un ottimista in America (1959-1960) (2014) 18 copies

I racconti volume 1 (1993) 17 copies

Punto y aparte: Ensayos sobre literatura y sociedad (1983) 16 copies

La foresta-radice-labirinto (2000) 15 copies

La nube de smog (1901) 15 copies

Garzanti - Gli Elefanti: Le Piu Belle Fabe (1995) 14 copies

L'Uccel Belverde e altre fiabe italiane (1982) 14 copies

Romanzi e racconti (1994) 12 copies

Der verzauberte Garten (1998) 12 copies

I racconti volume 2 (1993) 12 copies

The Argentine Ant (2005) 11 copies

La especulación inmobiliaria. La jornada de un escrutador. La nube de "smog" (1988) 11 copies

Il Principe granchio e altre fiabe italiane (1986) 10 copies

Novelle del novecento: an anthology (1966) — Contributor — 10 copies

Morel találmánya : Tudományos fantasztikus regény (1981) 10 copies

Tarots: The Visconti Pack in Bergamo and New York (1969) 10 copies

L'avventura di un lettore (1986) 10 copies

I disegni arrabbiati (2012) 9 copies

Un Misterio En El Laberinto (2000) 9 copies

Una pietra sopra (1980) 8 copies

Romarine (1994) 7 copies

Schwierige Liebschaften: Gesammelte Erzählungen (2013) 7 copies

Fiabe per i più piccini. Fiabe italiane. Ediz. illustrata (2013) 7 copies

Perde Quem Fica Zangado Primeiro (1995) 7 copies

Fiabe di animali magici. Fiabe italiane. Ediz. illustrata (2013) 6 copies

Fiabe di fanciulle fatate. Fiabe italiane. Ediz. a colori (2016) 6 copies

A Sign In Space 6 copies

Mozarts Zaide : eine Geschichte von Liebe und Abenteuern (1991) 6 copies

Fiabe di mare (2013) 5 copies

Vittorini 5 copies

Sono nato in America... Interviste 1951-1985 (2012) 5 copies

Die Hose des Teufels: Ein italienisches Märchen nacherzählt von Italo Calvino (1993) 5 copies

Heikle Erinnerungen. Erzählungen. (1993) 5 copies

Fiabe tutte da ridere (2013) 5 copies

L'oncle aquatique et autres récits cosmicomics (2015) 5 copies

Jeżeli t = 0 (2021) 5 copies

Fábulas e Contos - Volume I 4 copies

Primiracconti: Italo Calvino (Italian Edition) (2011) 4 copies

Die argentinische Ameise und andere Erzählungen (1984) 4 copies

Le Più Belle Fiabe Italiane (1995) 4 copies

Basnie wloskie Tom 1 (2013) 4 copies

Fiabe da far paura: appena appena, non tanto (2013) 4 copies

The Spiral 4 copies

Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno. Con il racconto inedito Flirt prima di battersi (2020) 4 copies

Forêt, racine, labyrinthe (1991) 4 copies

Il libro dei risvolti (2023) 4 copies

La vera storia 3 copies

Die Wette, wer zuerst wütend wird (1994) 3 copies

Guardare. Disegno, cinema, fotografia, arte, paesaggio, visioni e collezioni (2023) 3 copies

Italo Calvino en Mexico (Spanish Edition) (2006) 3 copies

Üç deneme (1993) 3 copies

Le métier d'écrire: Correspondance (1940-1985) (2023) 3 copies

Yeni Bir Sayfa (2017) 3 copies

Nasci na America - Uma vida em 101 conversas. 1951-1985 (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 3 copies

Memorias y vida dificiles 3 copies

Ponto final: escritos sobre literatura e sociedade (2003) 3 copies

Fanta-ghiro'e altre fiabe italiane (2006) 3 copies

All at One Point {short story} 3 copies

The daughters of the moon 2 copies

L’últim és el corb (2023) 2 copies

Fiabe per le bambine (2015) 2 copies

Tourner la page (2021) 2 copies

Le métier d'écrire: Correspondance (1940-1985) 2 copies

The Distance of the Moon {short story} 2 copies

Sizilianische Märchen aus der Sammlung von Italo Calvino / Fiabe siciliane dalla raccolta di Italo Calvino… (1997) 2 copies

La leggerezza. Passi scelti (2009) 2 copies

Castelli e fortificazioni 2 copies

Fábulas e Contos - Volume II 2 copies

Fiabe d'incantesimi. Fiabe italiane (2014) 2 copies

Sen "Alo" Demeden Önce 2 copies

L'avventura di un viaggiatore (in I racconti) 2 copies

La giornata d'uno scultore 2 copies

All in a Day 2 copies

Mbi përrallën 2 copies

Il drago e le farfalle e altre storie (2012) 2 copies

Sifir Zaman (2015) 2 copies

En valförrättares dag och andra berättelser (2019) 2 copies

L'illuminismo mio e tuo. Carteggio 1953-1985 (2023) 2 copies

イタリア民話集上 (岩波文庫赤 709-1) (1984) 2 copies

Fábulas e Contos - Volume III 2 copies

L'avventura di un impiegato (in Gli amori difficili) 2 copies

Varför läsa klassikerna (2011) 2 copies

I Meridiani - Romanzi e Racconti 2 copies

L'avventura di una bagnante (in Gli amori difficili) 2 copies

By passing the water - Calvino literature and social criticism Collection (2000) ISBN: 4022574666 [Japanese Import] (2000) 2 copies

L'avventura di un miope (in Gli amori difficili) 2 copies

L'avventura di una moglie (in Gli amori difficili) 2 copies

L'avventura di due sposi (in Gli amori difficili) 2 copies

L'avventura di un poeta (in Gli amori difficili) 2 copies

The Light Years {short story} 2 copies

The Form of Space {short story} 2 copies

The Dinosaurs {short story} 2 copies

How Much Shall We Bet? {short story} 2 copies

The Aquatic Uncle {short story} 2 copies

Contes populaires italiens, tome 3 : Italie des Apennins (1982) 2 copies

Games Without End {short story} 2 copies

Karin Van Dam: Cry Out For Joy, You Lower Parts Of The Earth (2005) 2 copies

Bando del premio Italo Calvino 2 copies

Défis aux labyrinthes, tome 1 : Textes et lectures critiques (2003) 2 copies

Seis propuestas para el próximo milenio 2 copies

Without Colors {short story} 2 copies

Wir wollen weniger erhoben und fleißiger gelesen sein. Über die Klassiker (1984) 2 copies

L'avventura di un soldato (in Gli amori difficili) 2 copies

Cola Pesce. Una fiaba di mare. Ediz. a colori (2023) 2 copies

At Daybreak {short story} 2 copies

Un re in ascolto / Ein König horcht 2 copies

Amore e ginnastica 1 copy

Stien med edderkopperne 1 copy

Ejderha ile Kelebekler 1 copy

Efsunlu Hayvan Masallari : Italyan Masallari (2015) 1 copy

Federico Fellini quattro film 1 copy

Gözlemci (2015) 1 copy

Garden, Ashes | Invisible Cities (2009) 1 copy

Italian Folktales: Volume 1 1 copy

Secme Mektuplar (1945-1985) (2017) 1 copy

Italo Calvino Letto da Marco Paolini. Marcovaldo su musiche di Tanit 1 copy

魔法の庭・空を見上げる部族他十四篇 1 copy

Antologji me tregime italiane 1 copy

Fiabe un po' da piangere (2018) 1 copy

The Castle of Crossed Destinies / Invisible Cities / t zero 1 copy

Azicik Korkutan Masallari: Italyan Masallari (2015) 1 copy

Italian Folktales: Volume 2 1 copy

Invito alla lettura di Italo Calvino. (1974) 1 copy

Vore forfdre 1 copy

Dere Tepe Ters (2013) 1 copy

Ein General in der Bibliothek Erzählungen (2016) 1 copy

L'ultimo canale. L'avventura di una bagnante. Tutto in un punto (2008) 1 copy

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler / Mr. Palomar / Under the Jaguar Sun 1 copy

Kurnazlarin Kazandigi Masallar (2016) 1 copy

Guardare: Disegno, cinema, fotografia, arte, paesaggio, visioni e collezioni 1 copy

Altri ricordi, altre confessioni: (1962-74) 1 copy

Todas as cosmicomicas - Edicao ilustrada (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2023) 1 copy

Markovaldo, ili Vremena goda v gorode 1 copy

A MEMÓRIA DO MUNDO 1 copy

COSMICÓMICAS 1 copy

Italo Calvino racconta l'«Orlando furioso» di Ludovico Ariosto (2023) 1 copy

L'uomo che corruppe Hadleyburg 1 copy

Um otimista na America. 1959-1960 (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 1 copy

Agaca Tüneyen Baron (2015) 1 copy

Das Wald-Wurzel-Labyrinth 1 copy

Por ultimo vem o corvo (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 1 copy

By Italo Calvino Cosmicomics (New edition) [Paperback] 1 copy

Güldüren Masallar - Italyan Masallari (2016) 1 copy

Marcovaldo (Oscar Opere Di Italo Calvino) by Italo Calvino(1989-03-18) 1 copy

Les jeunes du Pô (2023) 1 copy

Zes memo's voor het volgende millennium (2023) 1 copy

شوالیه‌ی ناموجود 1 copy

A VIDA DIFÍCIL 1 copy

He nacido en América: Entrevistas (1951-1985) 1 copy

FIABE ITALIANE VOLUME 2 1 copy

Henri Michaux, Garcia Marquez: L' Amour, La Vieillesse 1 copy

TE PARET TANE 1 copy

Quem Sou? - eBook 1 copy

Prisão Perpétua - eBook 1 copy

L'illuminismo mio e tuo: Carteggio 1953-1985 1 copy

Fiabe in cui vince il più furbo. Fiabe italiane. Oscar Junior (2019) 1 copy

Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in citta by Italo Calvino (2016-08-11) (2019) 1 copy

Palomars (2022) 1 copy

Il cavaliere inesistente. Garzanti 1 copy

Dalla favola al romanzo. La letteratura raccontata da Italo Calvino (2021) 1 copy

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Prefazioni a Shakespeare 1 copy

The Non-Existent Knight and The Cloven Viscount 1 copy

Italia — Contributor — 1 copy

Il teatro dei ventagli 1 copy

Fiabe di oggetti magici. Oscar Junior (2019) 1 copy

Fiabe a cavallo (2016) 1 copy

Le più belle pagine di Tommaso Landolfi 1 copy

Leggerezza: da "Lezioni americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio" 1 copy

Il libro, i libri 1 copy

Correspondencia (1940-1985) (2010) 1 copy

Confessioni di un ottuagenario 1 copy

Il gigante orripilante 1 copy

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Piccolo Sillabario Illustrato (B.O. 6) 1 copy

Ce kasi dar daria min kashat? (2009) 1 copy

Jaguar, Zebra, Nerz, Mandrill... Geschichten und Bilder für jeden Monat des Jahres (1994) 1 copy

Aizenberg: Dibujos 1 copy

Two Cosmicomics (Harper's, May 2009, vol. 318, No. 1908) 1 copy

Romanzi e racconti. Voll. 1 e 2 1 copy

Nouvelles italiennes d'aujourd'hui / Novelle italiane di oggi (1986) 1 copy

La aventura de una bañista. La aventura de un soldado. La aventura de una mujer casada. La aventura de un lector 1 copy

Contes populaires italiens : Émilie, Toscane (1981) 1 copy

Altri romanzi 1 copy

Fiabe di oggetti magici (2015) 1 copy

Azicik Acikli Masallar (2016) 1 copy

Il mare dell'oggettività 1 copy

Invisible cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Baron in the Trees 1 copy

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L'avventura di un fotografo (in Gli amori difficili) 1 copy

Notes Towards a Definition of the Narrative Form as a Combinative Process 1 copy

Défis aux labyrinthes, tome 2 : Textes et lectures critiques (2003) 1 copy

Lettere, 1924-1944 1 copy

The Last Channel (in Short Stories in Italian - ROBERTS) 1 copy

Big Fish, Little Fish (in Italian Short Stories 1 - TREVELYAN) 1 copy

Il teatro di ferro. Il cavaliere inesistente 1 copy

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Novedades Enero Julio 1991 1 copy

L'avventura di un bandito (in Gli amori difficili) 1 copy

L'avventura di uno sciatore (in Gli amori difficili) 1 copy

The dragon and the enchanted filly [IN: The book of dragons] 1 copy

L'avventura di un automobilista (in Gli amori difficili) 1 copy

Italo Calvino, Das Eichhörnchen der Feder (1991) 1 copy

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The Enchanted Palace (in Spells of Enchantment - ZIPES) 1 copy

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Le notti dell'UNPA (in I racconti) 1 copy

Anabasi Senofonte introduzione di Italo Calvino — Introduction — 1 copy

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Nesnadné vzpomínky (2018) 1 copy

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The Art of Life: An Anthology of Literature about Life and Work (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dans le creux du songe (2014) — Contributor — 1 copy

Månen : fra den indre verden til det ydre rum (2018) — Author, some editions — 1 copy

新潮 1990年 09月号現代SFの冒険 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Calvino, Italo
Legal name: Calvino Mameli, Italo Giovanni
Other names: Cavilla, Tonio
Birthdate: 1923-10-15
Date of death: 1985-09-19
Burial location: Cemetery of Castiglione Della Pescaia, Pescaia, Italy
Gender: male
Nationality: Italy
Country (for map): Italy
Birthplace: Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba
Place of death: Siena, Italy
Cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage
Places of residence: San Remo, Italy
Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba (birth)
Turin, Italy
Paris, France
Siena, Italy (death)
Education: University of Turin (Lic. 1947)
Occupations: journalist
short-story writer
novelist
essayist
Relationships: Calvino, Mario (father)
Calvino, Eva Mameli (mother)
Singer, Chichita (wife)
Organizations: American Academy
Oulipo
Italian Resistance (WWII)
Awards and honors: Légion d'Honneur
Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1976)
Premio Feltrinelli (1973)

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If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo; Weaver Calvino, William, Translator

Reread from a long time ago. He is a less learned version of Borges but really has more true psychological depth to his works. Both are equally fascinating.

Have to wonder if Wm Weaver did the best job in the translation though have not checked for alternatives.

Chapter 7 midway through has a delightful segway? about ways books are arranged in one's home and different categories of books.

Easy to see why some readers are offended by overt sexuality of later chapters, though I think it is so exotically/ esoterically descibed.

"Around an empty grave" parallels several Borges stories set in South America.… (more)

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delta351 | 257 other reviews | Apr 23, 2024 |

El Vizconde Demediado by Italo Calvino

El vizconde demediado
Italo Calvino
Publicado: 1952 | 85 páginas
Novela Fantástico Sátira

«El vizconde demediado» es la primera incursión de Italo Calvino en lo fabuloso y lo fantástico. Cuenta Calvino la historia del vizconde de Terralba, quien fue partido en dos por un cañonazo de los turcos y cuyas dos mitades continuaron viviendo por separado. Símbolo de la condición humana dividida, Medardo de Terralba sale a caminar por sus tierras. A su paso, las peras que colgaban de los árboles aparecen todas partidas por la mitad. Cada encuentro de dos seres en el mundo es un desgarrarse, le dice la mitad mala del vizconde a la mujer de quien se ha enamorado. Pero ¿es seguro que se trate de la mitad mala?
Esta magnífica fábula plantea la búsqueda del ser humano en su totalidad, quien suele estar hecho de algo más que de la suma de sus mitades.… (more)

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libreriarofer | 25 other reviews | Apr 23, 2024 |

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

Endlessly inventive, delightful and sometimes sad. Calvino takes real scientific theories and twists them into extremely human stories of love, loss and all the things in between.

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rknickme | 48 other reviews | Mar 31, 2024 |

Por que ler os clássicos by Italo Calvino

O que é um clássico? E por que lê-lo? Este livro fornece várias respostas a essas perguntas, algumas consensuais, outras polêmicas, mas todas certamente enriquecedoras. Em verdadeiro trabalho de ourivesaria, Calvino desentranha as diversas facetas do que seja um clássico, para depois iluminar com uma leitura penetrante seus próprios clássicos, ou seja, alguns dos autores mais importantes da tradição literária e intelectual do Ocidente. Por que ler os clássicos? A razão definitiva que Calvino dá a essa pergunta e tão simples como as grandes verdades: a única justificativa que se pode apresentar e que ler os clássicos e melhor do que não os ler...… (more)

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