Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon: Italo Calvino's Storytelling

✍ Scribed by Angela M. Jeannet

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Understanding Italo Calvino?s love of storytelling is pivotal to understanding the cultural and literary matrix of his lush fictional universe. A rich and vibrant critical portrait of Calvino?s work.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
The City of Crossed Destinies: A Preface in the Form of a Story
Historical Notes
Introduction
1. Literature and Doubt
2. Surveyors
3. Survivors, or The Pastoral Denied
4. Telling Stories
5. Between Garbage and Cosmos
6. Under the Crescent Moon
Bibliographical Information
Index

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