TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bolongaro,Eugenio
TI  - Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature
T2  - Toronto Italian Studies
SN  - 9780802087638
AV  - PQ4809.A45 Z57 2003eb
U1  - 853/.914 
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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 light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino's early writings, Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies scholars
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