The Written World and the Unwritten World
Essays
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 17, 2023
“Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view.
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- Who it’s for
- Calvino brings wit and curiosity to questions of how literature is read, written, and translated.
- Themes
- Literary criticism, Reading and writing, Literary translation
- Genres
- Italian Literary Criticism, Books & Reading, Comparative Literature
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“Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and new.” —Publishers Weekly A rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature.
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An extraordinary collection of essays, forewords, articles, and interviews, The Written World and the Unwritten World displays the remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp wit of prolific Italian writer Italo Calvino as he explores the meaning of literature in a rapidly changing world. From classics to contemporary literature, from tradition to the avant-garde, Calvino masterfully explores reading, writing, and translating through careful and illuminating discussion of the works of Bakhtin, Brecht, Cortázar, Thomas Mann, Octavio Paz, Georges Perec, Salman Rushdie, Gore Vidal, and more. Drawn from Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (2002), Sulla fiaba (1988), and other uncollected essays, this volume of previously untranslated work—now rendered in English by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein—is a major statement in literary criticism.
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Calvino brings wit and curiosity to questions of how literature is read, written, and translated.
Come here for
- A nimble perspective spanning literary tradition and the avant-garde
- Calvino’s thoughtful encounters with writers from Bakhtin to Rushdie
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- Essays, forewords, articles, and interviews on literature
- Close attention to the meanings and possibilities of reading and writing
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| Books & Reading | 69% |
|---|---|
| Italian Literary Criticism | 46% |
| Comparative Literature | 32% |
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Publisher categories
- Italian Literary Collections
- Essay Collections
- Italian Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Italo Calvino
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- January 17, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Literary criticism · Reading and writing · Literary translation
- Reading lane
- Italian Literary Collections