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Looking at five of Italo Calvino''s often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino''s development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more ''political'' reading of Calvino''s later work.

Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature firmly situates Calvino within his historical context - the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy - by relating these early novels to Calvino''s political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino''s work in a new

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      Publisher: MY - University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 9/27/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780802087638, 978-0802087638
      ISBN10: 0802087639

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Looking at five of Italo Calvino''s often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino''s development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more ''political'' reading of Calvino''s later work.

      Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature firmly situates Calvino within his historical context - the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy - by relating these early novels to Calvino''s political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino''s work in a new

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