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.
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.