Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a collection of five Charles Eliot Norton lectures that Calvino was to deliver at Harvard University at the time of his death. If you are a teacher or researcher, they will cause you to rethink what and how you teach and conduct research. If you are a student, they will teach you. If you are a student of the human condition, if you can be transfixed by a wave, or by the moon in the afternoon, by a giraffe or an albino gorilla, if you fail to bite your tongue as often as you should, if you enjoy a naked bosom now and then, if sometimes you lose your patience with the young, or simply if you dabble in contemplation, however irregularly, Palomar's observations will delight, amuse, and inform you. Palomar, from which several of the wonderful essays above are taken, as well as Invisible Cities and The Uses of Literature. Calvino also edited a volume of Italian Folktales (1956/1962) and Fantastical Tales (1996/1997). The Road to San Giovanni, a collection of five beautiful essays (1990/1993), and Numbers in the Dark, a book of short stories (1993/1995), were posthumously published. The Uses of Literature (1980, 1982/1986 The Literature Machine in the UK) consists of essays about the craft of literature. If on a winter's night a traveler (1979/1981), The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1969/1976), The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount (1951, 1959/1962),ĭifficult Loves (a book of short stories - 1949, 1958/1984), The novel that resulted from that experience, published in English as The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947 Italy/1957 USA), won popular and critical acclaim. He was a member of the partisan movement during the German occupation of northern Italy in World War II. Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Europe's greatest and most popular writers, was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy. Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA).Calvino books available through Alibris.Alibris - nice selection of out-of-print books.Tal Cohen's Bookshelf offers information on Invisible Cities.Search Calvino titles at Barnes and Noble.Some quotations taken from Calvino's work.Biographical information and additional sources from Books and Writers.Excellent information on available books. Calvino entry from Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Works.Calvino Online Literary Criticism Collection from the Internet Public Library.Calvino entries from Brittanica on Line.A brief biographical sketch by Marcie Cartier.A wonderful Calvino Home Page by Yoram Puius.From New York Times (requires registration, which is free). 22, 1999 at The Cooper Union in New York. Organized by Giovanna Calvino and held on Oct. A tribute to Calvino, featuring comments by Umberto Eco, Carlos Fuentes, and Salman Rushdie, and readings of his work. Audio Special: Celebrating Italo Calvino.Todd Comer's Outside the Town of Malbork.A lovely insight from Jerome Bruner that relates to Calvino.Calvino's great translator offers some thoughts on the master. Vidal on Calvino's Death - from The New York Review of Books, 1985.Gore Vidal on Calvino's Novels - from The New York Review of Books, 1974.Calvino's Late Novels as Examples of Hypertext, a wonderful essay by Mikhail Viesel (in French)."The Parallels!" Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, by John Barth.Italo Calvino: Cybernetics and Ghosts, by David C.Italo Calvino: Hermit in Paris, by Michael Mewshaw.Calvino's Reality: Designer's Utopia, an elegant essay focusing on Six Memos.Calvino and the Oulipo: An Italian Ghost in the Combinatory Machine? - by Anna Botta for MLN.Calvino and the Value of Literature, by Lucia Re.Palomar, the Triviality of Modernity, and the Doctrine of the Void, by Stefano Franchi.A Path to the Nest of Translation - Giulia Guarnieri discusses her interviews with Italo Calvino's translator as well as the disagreements Calvino had with Pier Paolo Pasolini about the future evolution of the Italian language.Selections in Spanish from Universidad de Chile.Īccess to some of the links below are restricted to educational institutions affiliated with Johns Hopkins or the University of Virginia. Passages from Calvino's books and essays. Final exchange between Marco and the Khan.Marco and the Khan on stones and arches.On swimming against the stream of time.On keeping convictions in the fluid state.