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.
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-139492-3
- EAN
- 9780141394923
- Release date
- 2022
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