Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino, (born October 15, 1923, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba—died September 19, 1985, Siena, Italy), Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century.

Calvino left Cuba for Italy in his youth. He joined the Italian Resistance during World War II and after the war settled in Turin, obtaining his degree in literature while working for the Communist periodical Lunate and for the publishing house of Einaudi. From 1959 to 1966 he edited, with Elio Vitorino, the left-wing magazine Il Manabí di Literature.

Two of Calvino’s first fictional works were inspired by his participation in the Italian Resistance: the Nonrealistic novel Il entire die nidi di range (1947; The Path to the Nest of Spiders), which views the Resistance through the experiences of an adolescent as helpless in the midst of events as the adults around him; and the collection of stories entitled Ultimo vine ill curve (1949; Adam, One Afternoon, and Other Stories).

 

 

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