Italo Calvino, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (144p) ISBN 978-0-679-74237-1
This collection of five elegant essays by the Italian fiction writer offers an affecting self-portrait. (Nov.)
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Italo Calvino, read by John Lee. Tantor Media, unabridged, three CDs, 2.75 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-4526-1448-9
At its most basic level, Calvino’s novel is a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, as the former describes the fantastical cities and landscapes he’s visited during his explorations. Of course, this is severely understating the scope of...
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Italo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-544-14644-0
Reviewed by Seth Satterlee. Nearly 50 years after the publication of the original Cosmicomics, Calvino's 34 connected tales—spanning three separate collections—are finally together for the first time in English. The majority of the stories begin...
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Italo Calvino, Author, William Weaver, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $12.95 (86p) ISBN 978-0-15-192820-0
A sumptuous small gem of a book, this volume contains three of the tales on the five senses planned by Calvino, who died last year. Taste, hearing, and smell receive arch and imaginative treatment in language that links every sense to love. The wife
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Italo Calvino, Author, William Weaver, Translator, Patrick Creagh, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-193205-4
Italian novelist and short story writer Calvino has been accused of making protons, quarks and living cells talk as if they were people, but here he defends his approach as a kind of animism attuned to the way the universe works. His fascination...
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Italo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, $13.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-544-14667-9
When Calvino (If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler) died unexpectedly in 1985, he was an internationally known storyteller and arguably Italy’s most celebrated author. These five erudite essays, originally intended for the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry...
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Italo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Mariner Classics, $17.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-544-14699-0
Essays, reviews, and a few letters come together in this wonderful collection from novelist Calvino (1923–1985) that surveys his varied interests and discerning style. The first section, on reading, writing, and translating, contains his musings on...
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Italo Calvino, Author, Tim Parks, Translator Vintage Books USA $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-74353-8
A collection of previously uncollected stories from the late Italian fabulist. (Oct.)
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Italo Calvino, Author, Tim Parks, Translator Pantheon Books $19 (150p) ISBN 978-0-679-41523-7
In five elegant ``memory exercises'' written between 1962 and 1977, Italian fiction writer Calvino (1923-85) presents an affecting self-portrait and offers indirect insights into how he conjured up his imaginary worlds. He writes of his difficult...
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Italo Calvino, Author, Tim Parks, Translator Pantheon Books $24 (276p) ISBN 978-0-679-44205-9
Italian novelist and short-story writer Calvino (1923-1985) is well-represented in this continually surprising collection of more than three dozen fables, tales, fragments and dialogues--a third of them never before published, others culled from...
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Italo Calvino, Author, Martin McLaughlin, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin. Pantheon $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-42184-6
This new volume of autobiographical writings (never before translated into English) by Calvino, whose short stories and novels gave him international acclaim as one of the 20th century's most important Italian fiction writers, is a welcome...
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Italo Calvino, Author, Martin McLaughlin, Translator Pantheon Books $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-41524-4
Although the title suggests that this posthumous collection was cobbled together to capitalize on the latest culture wars, the great Italian novelist who died in 1985 had himself planned to compile it. The book remains an uneven hodgepodge of essays
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Italo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin. HMH/Mariner, , $13.95 ISBN 978-0-544-14646-4
Calvino’s diverse interests are on full display in this collection of delightful and erudite essays by the author of Invisible Cities. Originally published in Italian in 1984, it was the last volume of new work published in his lifetime. Many of the
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Italo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, $13.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-544-14638-9
Sixty years after its original publication in Italy, Calvino’s trio of war stories has been translated for the first time into English. The line between fiction and autobiography is decidedly blurred in the character of the unnamed, first-person...
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Italo Calvino. Selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin. Princeton Univ, $39.50 (662p) ISBN 978-0-691-13945-6
Acclaimed Italian author Calvino (1923–1985) is best known for his fables, stories, and novels, including If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Yet he was also a book editor, journalist, and WWII Resistance fighter. This first English translation of...
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