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Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists.

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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 *

The Road to San Giovanni

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    A Paperback / softback by Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 28 May 2009
      ISBN-13 9780141189710
      978-0141189710
      ISBN-10 0141189711
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      Biography Autobiography: writers Memoirs Books by Italo Calvino

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists.

      Trade Review
      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 *

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