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The Road to San Giovanni
  • Published: 6 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141189710
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $29.99

The Road to San Giovanni

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4 Apr 2013
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6 July 2009
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First time in Penguin Modern Classics

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino's alchemical brilliance.
  • Published: 6 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141189710
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985.
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Also by Italo Calvino

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Invisible Cities
The Complete Cosmicomics
Last Comes the Raven
Cosmicomics
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
The Baron in the Trees
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Praise for The Road to San Giovanni

These autobiographical essays marvellously reconstitute different strata of his past in all the pristine, warm stir of immediacy

Sunday Times

In these personal essays, Calvino dives into his memory and childhood with great warmth

John Self

I propose a new adjective, calvinoid - as in a calvinoid construct, an impossible and beautiful structure spun out of the detritus of the quotidian . . . the scientific precision of his imagination and his carnivalesque delight in irony and absurdity . . . His legacy is an atlas full of calvinoid constructs, invisible cities, that will dazzle the lucky explorer

Clive Sinclair, Independent