Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian novelist and essayist who became one of the most inventive and widely translated writers of the twentieth century. Born in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, to Italian botanist parents and raised in San Remo, Italy, he fought as a partisan against the fascists during World War II—an experience that marked him deeply. He studied literature at the University of Turin and joined the intellectual circles around the publisher Einaudi, where he worked as an editor for decades. This author hub collects 3 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Invisible Cities.
Start with Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, ranked #221 in the Canon Compass list.
Featured Books
Calvino's Invisible Cities: Marco Polo describes fifty-five impossible cities to Kublai Khan. A poetic meditation on memory and desire.
Calvino's postmodern masterpiece turns you, the reader, into the protagonist of a labyrinthine literary adventure.
Calvino's enchanting fable of a boy who climbs into the trees and never comes down, finding freedom and purpose aloft.