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The Written World and the Unwritten World

A scintillating collection of essays that encapsulates the great Italian writer's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature, now available in English for the first time

Reading, writing, translating; the avant-garde and tradition; the fate of the novel: these are just some of the themes of The Written World and the Unwritten World. A collection of essays, forewords, articles, interviews, notes, and other occasional pieces, this work displays Calvino's remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp wit as he explores the meaning of literature in a rapidly changing world. Drawn from the Italian collections Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (2002), Sulla fiaba (1988), and uncollected essays, this volume of previously untranslated work — now rendered in English by Ann Goldstein — is a major statement in literary criticism.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 240
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-139492-3
  • EAN
  • 9780141394923
  • Release date
  • 2022