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	Italo Calvino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba, to botanists Mario Calvino and Evelina Mameli (a descendant of Goffredo Mameli) and brother of Floriano Calvino, a famous geologist, Italo Calvino soon moved to his family's homeland of Italy, where he lived most of his life.
		Vittorini's death in 1966 had a heavy influence on Calvino and caused him to experience what has been defined as an "intellectual depression", which the writer himself described as an important passage in his life: "...I ceased to be young.
		Calvino also had more intense contacts with the academic world, with notable experiences at the Sorbonne (with Barthes) and at Urbino's university.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calvino (1358 words)

	Italo Calvino
		Born in Santiago de Las Vegas[?], Cuba to botanists Mario Calvino and Evelina Mameli (a descendant of Goffredo Mameli) and brother of Floriano Calvino[?], a famous geologist, he soon moved to Italy, where his family was from and where he lived most of his life.
		It was in 1957 that Calvino unexpectedly left the communist party, and his resigning letter (soon famous) was published on L'Unità.
		Vittorini's death in 1966 had a heavy influence on Calvino and caused him what has been defined as an "intellectual depression", which the writer himself described as an important passage in his life:...I ceased to be young.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/it/Italo_Calvino.html (1221 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Calvino, Italo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Calvino was one of the most popular novelists of the 20th cent.
		Ingenuous and Not at All Austere - A Profile of Italo Calvino.
		On the Museum of the Twenty-First Century: An Homage to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.(proposal for expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, New York)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Calvino.asp (261 words)

	The Official Vincent Calvino Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And now Calvino was inside the Lido Bar in Phnom Penh, where wise guys in uniform had a girlfriend for no more than twenty-four hours, and civilians like L'Blanc could also indulge their desires, recycling Vietnamese whores who had been with a uniform the night before.
		Calvino caught him with a heavy right into his midsection, and the fight immediately left him The soldier grabbed the railing, struggling to get to his feet, and instead leaned his head over the side and vomited beer.
		It was after midnight when Calvino and the girl walked down the tattered red carpeted staircase and into the street where some of the drivers were cursing the vomit and combing their hair with plastic combs.
	www.vincentcalvino.com /Books/zero_Excerpts.html (5275 words)

	Waggish: Italo Calvino on Musil and Gadda
		John Barth's article also mentioned Calvino's essay on "Multiplicity." It's a short piece on novels that spawn ever outward and novels that are unfinishable on that account.
		Calvino loops in some Oulipo authors and talks about generative novels, but his main focus is on uncontrollable novels, not contrived ones.
		For Calvino, they are unified by the devouring nature of their books, both of which (he implies) prevent completion by their very design.
	www.waggish.org /2003/06/italo_calvino_on_musil_and_gadda.html (422 words)

	Italo Calvino
		Calvino studied at the University of Turin (1941-47) and Royal University in Florence (1943).
		Calvino was amazed of the size of the fridges and how ignorant Americans were of Italian writing.
		Calvino died of cerebral hemorrhage in Siena, on September 19, 1985.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /calvino.htm (1720 words)

	Bold Type: Essay by Gore Vidal
		Calvino had had a cerebral hemorrhage two weeks earlier while sitting in the garden of his house at Pineta di Roccamare, where he had spent the summer working on the Charles Eliot Norton lectures that he planned to give during the fall and winter at Harvard.
		In Calvino's case, the American newspaper obituaries were perfunctory and incompetent: The circuits between the English departments, where our tablets of literary reputation are now kept, and the world of journalism are more than ever fragile and the reception is always bad.
		Calvino was as inspired by the inhabitants of zoos as by those of cities.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1000/vidal/essay.html (3739 words)

	Jim Mann's Reviews and Comments: Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
		Italo Calvino was a major Italian writer (actually, he was born in Cuba but moved to Italy when he was very young) from the 1950s until his death in 1985.
		Calvino picks various points in the history of the universe – all starting with what seem like quotes from a book on astronomy or astrophysics – and from there Qfwfq tells a story.
		Calvino starts with the fact that the moon used to be closer to the earth, and from it creates a love story set in a time when the moon was close enough that people could reach it via a ladder.
	www.dpsinfo.com /jblog/2006/02/cosmicomics-by-italo-calvino.html (693 words)

	Moos: Italo Calvino as Author/Game-master in _If on a winter's night a traveler_
		Calvino continues this strategy throughout the novel and as a result he encourages his readers to join in and take up the quest with the Reader for a complete novel that has not been compromised by a devious translator or an erring publisher.
		Calvino cleverly leads his readers on the same empty quest that the Reader is on so that at the end on the novel we find that we were totally under his control the whole time.
		Calvino's metafictional commentary on authorship allows us to infer his true opinions, yet by interspersing his novel with his own famous "author-name" he is acknowledging that sentimentality is anything but modern.
	www.public.asu.edu /~dgilfill/digitaltexts/final_projects/moos (2714 words)

	The Italo Calvino Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Calvino turned decisively to fantasy and allegory in the 1950s, producing the three fantastic tales that brought him international acclaim.
		The third fantasy, Il cavaliere inesistente (1959; "The Nonexistent Knight," in The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount), is a mock epic chivalric tale.
		Among Calvino's later works of fantasy is Le cosmicomiche (1965; Cosmicomics), a stream-of-consciousness narrative that treats the creation and evolution of the universe.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/7504/calvino.html (667 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Italo Calvino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Calvino insisted that literature should attempt to reaffirm this distinction, but not to the point of sinking into a labyrinth of pessimism.
		Borrowing from Heidegger’s philosophy, Calvino emphasized the narrator’s role as viewer to further highlight the gulf between the observer and the world.
		Calvino himself claims that this move created a "geographical instability that makes me forever long for somewhere else." Ultimately, he discovered that that "somewhere else" was in his books.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?wosid=NO&id=77 (488 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Italo Calvino - Italian Author
		Italo Calvino is possibly the best-known Italian writer in the English speaking world.With the possible exception of Umberto Eco His books__ light, sometimes playful and always intelligent__ still sell and this is due to the complete originality they display and the strength of Calvino's imagination (or his gimmicks depending on your point of view).
		Calvino's imagination and lightness of touch mean that he will be read for many years to come.
		Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 near Havana.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A953750 (1340 words)

	Italo Calvino
		Palomar, the Triviality of Modernity, and the Doctrine of the Void, by Stefano Franchi.
		Calvino's Late Novels as Examples of Hypertext, a wonderful essay by Mikhail Viesel (in French).
		Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Europe's greatest and most popular writers, was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/calvino (893 words)

	The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Castle of Crossed Destinies is a 1969 novel by Italo Calvino that details a meeting among travelers (with homage to Geoffrey Chaucer) who are inexplicably unable to speak after traveling through a forest.
		The novel is an exploration of how meaning is created, whether that be written via words (by the author, via the book, since the characters in the book cannot speak to each other) or by images (the tarot cards -- considered prophetic to some and are themselves open to many symbolic interpretations).
		It is, as often in Calvino's works, multi-layered, and several levels of interpretations and readings are possible, based on the relationships between author-narrator-characters-reader.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Castle_of_Crossed_Destinies (168 words)

	Italo Calvino and inevitability in storytelling
		This article is based on Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium[1]- a series of lectures he was to have given at Harvard University in 1985-1986 but didn't live to deliver.
		Lightness for Calvino is identified with such properties as mobility, agility of spirit, knowledge of the world, subtlety, multiplicity, the precariousness of things as they are, levitation and freedom.
		Though Calvino does not explicitly mention this form of inevitability in Six Memos, his positive references to "unpredictable deviations" and "infinite unexpected possibilities" are reasonable indicators as to where he would stand on that issue.
	imv.au.dk /publikationer/pov/Issue_18/section_1/artc13A.html#fn2 (1700 words)

	Waggish: John Barth on Calvino and Borges
		In Calvino's spirals and vertiginous recombinations I see a mischievous element of the non-Euclidean; he shared my admiration, for example, of Boccaccio's invention of the character Dioneo in the Decameron: The narrative Dionysian wild card who exempts himself from the company's rules and thus adds a lively element of (constrained) unpredictability to the narrative program.
		And Calvino's charming Qwfwq and Marco Polo and Marcovaldo and Mr.
		The charge of characterlessness actually seems more substantiated in Calvino's later work, where he is striving for aesthetic effect over narrative (moreso than Borges ever did), but that's still discounting his earlier work, particularly the airy nobleman of The Baron in the Trees, who is as much a character as anyone in Ariosto.
	www.waggish.org /2003/06/john_barth_on_calvino_and_borges.html (610 words)

	Calvino's Novels, by Gore Vidal
		This sort of precise, quasi-scientific observation keeps Calvino from the sort of sentimentality that was prevalent in the forties, when wise children learned compassion from a fl mammy as she deep-fried chitlins and Jesus in equal parts south of the Mason-Dixon line.
		I have a suspicion that Calvino is dreaming all this, for he writes like a bookish, near-sighted man who has mislaid his glasses: objects held close-to are vividly described but the middle and far distances of landscape and war tend to blur.
		Calvino also comes as close as any writer can to saying that which is sensed about creation but may not be put into words or drawn in pictures.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/novels.html (7016 words)

	Italo Calvino. UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The son of traveling botanists, Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45.
		After taking a degree in literature from the University of Turin in 1947, Calvino supported himself by working on the editorial staff of the publishing house Einaudi, which he remained associated with for 35 years.
		In 1957, deeply disappointed by events in Eastern Europe, Calvino left the Communist party; in the years that followed, his writing gradually diverged from the dominant neorealist style and assumed its own peculiar and distinctive voice.
	www.litfix.co.uk /calvino.htm (280 words)

	Printed Matter -- Italo Calvino, Yan Nascimbene -- Page
		Calvino, who died in 1985, is one of the foremost Italian writers of the 20th century, and a particular favorite of the half-French, half-Italian Nascimbene.
		Calvino was born in Cuba but went to Italy as a young man. He joined the Italian Resistance during World War II and after the war settled in Turin, earning a degree in literature while working for a Communist periodical.
		Second, Calvino's estate is tightly controlled by his widow, Esther, who rarely agrees to any project involving her late husband's work.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/2000/yan11.html (735 words)

	CONTEXT: Barth, Calvino, Borges
		So appealing a case does Calvino make for these particular half-dozen literary values, it's important to remember that they aren't the only ones; indeed, that their contraries have also something to be said for them.
		Calvino even defined Post-modernism, in his "Visibility" lecture, as "the tendency to make ironic use of the stock images of the mass media, or to inject the taste for the marvelous inherited from literary tradition into narrative mechanisms that accentuate their alienation"--a tendency as characteristic of Borges's production as of his own.
		Calvino's esteem for Borges is a matter of record; I regret having neglected to ask Borges, in our half-dozen brief conversations, his opinion of Calvino.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no1/barth.html (1104 words)

	Amazon.com: If on a winter's night a traveler: Books: Italo Calvino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Calvino is the master of 'short stories', and I find myself also lost and longing for the 'ending' to the stories that make up this greater novel.
		Calvino's lively experiment begins by describing a reader (that is, "you") reading Calvino's novel and, after this opening, "you" settle in to read the novel that you were "meant" to be reading--a noir mystery with a cliffhanger at the end of the first chapter.
		Calvino's "Traveller" takes this concept a step further; similar to the music of Tchaikovsky or Beethoven, the listener or reader are called upon the task of `re-creation', they are no more only passive-effect-points, but active participants' and co-creators' of the music or story.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156439611?v=glance (3388 words)

	Vincent Calvino
		Calvino, in fact, is one of the world's most popular and best-selling eyes.
		A big part of Moore's charm is his unerring eye for the intricacies of not just the Thai culture but also the Thai psyche, and the curious demimonde of the expat community, caught forever in the tug-of-war between East and West.
		Calvino's world is one of foreign correspondents, diplomats, business executives, English language teachers, adventurers, drunks, con artists, whores and hustlers, all unwilling, unable or uninterested in going home.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /eyes/calvino.html (457 words)

	village voice > books > Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino by Paul LaFarge
		The essays, interviews, and questionnaires that Calvino kept in a folder called "Autobiographical Pieces," discovered by his wife after his death, were mostly written for newspapers; the title essay comes from an interview for Swiss TV.
		There is a Calvino on view in these pieces, but it is not the intimate Calvino, about whom one learns almost nothing (when he lived in Paris, he took the Metro every morning to buy the Italian newspapers: So he didn't write in the morning!).
		Here is a Calvino very much like, well, the narrators of his novels: a semi-detached intellect given to speculation on the nature of cities, places, travel.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0318,lafarge,43682,10.html (393 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| David Mitchell rereads Italo Calvino
		Each time "You" (and you) get your hands on the continuation of the last interrupted story, it turns out, agonisingly, to be a brand-new one: but each one, after a line or two, becomes as enticing and addictive as its predecessor.
		Calvino's turn of phrase (translated by the estimable William Weaver) is as sonorous as I remember, but what I enjoyed most in my re-reading were plumbable sentences that I suspect the undergraduate me glossed over.
		Possibly it is Calvino's very influence on his inheritors that lends this 1979 novel its slight hoariness.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1221892,00.html (859 words)

	Calvino Takes Readers on a Tour of (Mostly) European Classics
		We learn that Calvino began in the '50s as a proponent of the terse, transparent style of Ernest Hemingway and grew more experimental as a writer as his reading turned to more classical fare.
		Calvino's collected critical writings cannot help but shed light on his creative work, and they perform a significant documentary service.
		Because Calvino believes that readers must approach the classics directly, he plays the master of ceremonies who quiets the house as the curtain rises, gets the audience's attention with a few apt remarks and then quickly gets out of the actors' way.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/24/RV62450.DTL (825 words)

	Italo Calvino sparks obsessions \| MetaFilter
		May 20, 2005 2:28 PM Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is so called because it asserts that what makes up a city is not so much its physical structure but the impression it imparts upon its visitors, the way its inhabitants move within, something unseen that hums between the cracks.
		Calvino is a magician, he plays with words and abstract concepts with incredible grace.
		Calvino has a way of catching and defining the universality that threads things together and dressing it up with details quite lyrically, you just have to marvel at the craftsmanship that must have gone into the final work.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/42164 (2688 words)

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