Middlebury

ITAL 6772

Italo Calvino's Fiction

Italo Calvino’s fiction: from Neorealism to Postmodernism

The course is meant to trace the evolution of Calvino’s writing and theoretical and critical thought through the analysis of four among his main novels considered on the background of the literary and cultural Italian landscape in the second half of the Twentieth century.

Required Texts: Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (1947), Milano, Mondadori, 2007; La nuvola di smog (1958), Milano, Mondadori (“Oscar”), 2004. Il cavaliere inesistente (1959) in I nostri antenati, Milano, Mondadori (“Oscar”), 2004. Il castello dei destini incrociati (1973), Milano, Mondadori, 2002.

Critical Bibliography: Giorgio Bertone, Italo Calvino. Il castello della scrittura, Torino, Einaudi, 1994.
Subject:
Italian
Department:
Italian
Division:
Language School
Requirements Fulfilled:

Sections in Summer 2008, LS 7 Week Session

Summer 2008, LS 6 Week Session

ITAL6772A-L08 Lecture (Papini)