{"product_id":"italo-calvino-and-the-compass-of-literature-9780802087638","title":"Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking at five of Italo Calvino''s often neglected early novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Young People of Po\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cloven Viscount\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Baron in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Non-Existent Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eItalo Calvino and the Compass of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MY - University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534979629399,"sku":"9780802087638","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802087638.jpg?v=1755858426","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/italo-calvino-and-the-compass-of-literature-9780802087638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}