Hermit in Paris Autobiographical Writings

by CALVINO, ITALO

• ISBN13: 9780375714269
• ISBN10: 037571426X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780307426222
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-10
• Publisher: Vintage
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Summary

From one of modern literature's most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Here are his reminiscences of Italy's antifascist resistance and the frenzy of politics and ideas of the postwar era. The longest and most delightfully revealing section of the book is Calvino's diary of his travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960, which show him marveling at color TV, wrinkling his nose at the Beats, and reeling at the outpouring of racial hatred attending a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. Overflowing with insight and amusement,Hermit in Parisis an invaluable addition to the Calvino legacy.

Author Biography

Italo Calvino’s works include<b> Numbers in the Dark</b>, <b>The Road to San Giovanni</b>, <b>Six Memos for the Next Millennium</b>, <b>The Baron in the Trees</b>, <b>If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller</b>, <b>Invisible Cities</b>, <b>Marcovaldo</b>, and <b>Mr. Palomar</b>. He died in 1985.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

Table of Contents

Stranger in Turin	p. 3
The Writer and the City	p. 6
Questionnaire, 1956	p. 7
American Diary 1959-1960	p. 16
The Cloven Communist	p. 121
Political Autobiography of a Young Man	p. 130
A Letter in Two Versions	p. 157
Objective Biographical Notice	p. 160
Hermit in Paris	p. 167
Where I Was on 25th April 1945	p. 176
Dialect	p. 180
The Situation in 1978	p. 184
Was I a Stalinist Too?	p. 192
The Summer of '56	p. 200
The Duce's Portraits	p. 207
Behind the Success	p. 221
I Would Like to Be Mercutio	p. 234
My City Is New York	p. 235
Interview with Maria Corti	p. 240
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