The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays

"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.

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.

Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 01/17/2023
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780544146990


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/31/2022

About the Author
ITALO CALVINO (1923-1985) attained worldwide renown as the author of Invisible Cities, The Baron in the Trees, and numerous collections of fiction and essays.

ANN GOLDSTEIN has translated widely from Italian, including the works of Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi, Alessandro Baricco, and others.