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Italo Calvino

Works by Italo Calvino

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Sotto il sole giaguaro

A short unfinished work but nevertheless a fabulous descent into the world of the senses. This book comes from the period when Calvino was such an established artist that he could experiment and still command an audience. As with Invisible Cities, this is the kind of writing, (more...)

Castle of Crossed Destinies [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Original title: Castello dei destini incrociati

Marcovaldo: or, The Seasons in the City [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Marcovaldo

This is one of Calvino’s chronicles of a changing Italy. Marcovaldo is a Candide-like naïf observer of urban life. He has the heart of a countryman but, to make a living, has to live in an ugly and polluted Northern city. In a gentle, humorous way, (more...)

Invisible Cities [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Città invisibili

Difficult Loves [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by W et al Weaver
Original title: Amori difficili

Mr Palomar [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Palomar

Cosmicomics [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Cosmicomiche

The Watcher and Other Stories [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by W et al Weaver
Original title: La giornata di una scrutatore

A fairly early work that uncannily captures the atmosphere of a rapidly industrialising, modernising Northern Italy in the late 1950s. (more...)

Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by Tim Parks
Original title: Prima che tu dica pronto

If on a winter's night a traveler [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino

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