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This title in other editionsHermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writingsby Italo Calvino
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From one of modern literature's most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English.Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Here are his reminiscences of Italy's antifascist resistance and the frenzy of politics and ideasof the postwar era.
The longest and most delightfully revealing section of the book is Calvino's diary of his travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960, which show him marveling at colorTV, wrinkling his nose at the Beats, and reeling at the outpouring of racial hatred attending a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. Overflowing with insight and amusement, Hermit in Paris is aninvaluable addition to the Calvino legacy. From the Trade Paperback edition. Synopsis:Twelve autobiographical writings published by Italo Calvino in different books, one unpublished piece "American diary" and one work never published in Italy but printed in Lugano in a limited edition, Hermit in Paris--Pref.
About the AuthorItalo Calvino’s works include Numbers in the Dark, The Road to San Giovanni, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Baron in the Trees, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar. He died in 1985.
From the Hardcover edition. Table of ContentsStranger in Turin — The writer and the city — Questionnaire, 1956 — American diary 1959-1960 — The cloven communist — Political autobiography of a young man — A letter in two versions — Objective biographical notice — Hermit in Paris — Where I was on 25th April 1945 — Dialect — The situation in 1978 — Was I a Stalinist too? — The summer of '56 — The Duce's portraits — Behind the success — I would like to be Mercutio ... — My city is New York — Interview with Maria Corti.
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