Letters - Italo Calvino

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Book in Italian

Mondadori classics

Letters to family, friends, readers, writers, translators; second-hand letters; letters intended for immediate publication, or strictly confidential. Meager reports, extensive reflections, sometimes real "epistolary essays". The over a thousand letters presented and annotated in this volume (which takes up and enriches the volume published in «Meridiani» in 2000 with around a hundred unpublished ones) are very different from each other in terms of consistency and tone. The Calvinist correspondence selected by Luca Baranelli presents itself to the reader as a labyrinth, which on the one hand provides a large amount of information to reconstruct many important phases of the cultural and civil history of the Italian twentieth century; on the other hand it allows you to follow Calvino's creative, intellectual and psychological journey step by step, from his training during the war, the Resistance and post-war years to his civil and political commitment, from his editorial work to recognizing and questioning himself as a writer. And Calvino appears as a "writer" right from the start, a true master of brevitas and synthesis, but also of lucid argumentation, which even in the most rapid and informal texts manages to reach a very high conceptual and stylistic level.

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Description

Book in Italian

Mondadori classics

Letters to family, friends, readers, writers, translators; second-hand letters; letters intended for immediate publication, or strictly confidential. Meager reports, extensive reflections, sometimes real "epistolary essays". The over a thousand letters presented and annotated in this volume (which takes up and enriches the volume published in «Meridiani» in 2000 with around a hundred unpublished ones) are very different from each other in terms of consistency and tone. The Calvinist correspondence selected by Luca Baranelli presents itself to the reader as a labyrinth, which on the one hand provides a large amount of information to reconstruct many important phases of the cultural and civil history of the Italian twentieth century; on the other hand it allows you to follow Calvino's creative, intellectual and psychological journey step by step, from his training during the war, the Resistance and post-war years to his civil and political commitment, from his editorial work to recognizing and questioning himself as a writer. And Calvino appears as a "writer" right from the start, a true master of brevitas and synthesis, but also of lucid argumentation, which even in the most rapid and informal texts manages to reach a very high conceptual and stylistic level.

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