The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays

by Italo Calvino, Ann Goldstein

Available in English for the first time, a collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of this great Italian master’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature

  • Format: eBook
  • ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544230859
  • ISBN-10: 054423085X
  • Pages: 288
  • Publication Date: 07/12/2022
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  • About the Book
    A collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature 

     

    Reading, writing, translating; the avant-garde and tradition; the fate of the novel: these are just some of the themes of The Written World and the Unwritten World. A collection of essays, forewords, articles, interviews, notes, and other occasional pieces, this work displays Calvino’s remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp wit as he explores the meaning of literature in a rapidly changing world. Drawn from Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (2002), Sulla fiaba (1988), and uncollected essays, this volume of previously untranslated work—now rendered in English by Ann Goldstein—is a major statement in literary criticism.

  • About the Author

    Italo Calvino

    ITALO CALVINO (1923–1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His works have been translated into dozens of languages.

    Ann Goldstein

    ANN GOLDSTEIN is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated the works of many of Italy's most prominent writers, including Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi, Giacomo Leopardi, Aldo Buzzi, and Alessandro Piperno.

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