From one of modern literature’s most captivating and elusivemasters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, andquick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublishedin English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literaryinfluences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Hereare his reminiscences of Italy’s antifascist resistance and thefrenzy of politics and ideas of the postwar era.
The longest and most delightfully revealing section of the bookis Calvino’s diary of his travels in the United States in 1959 and1960, which show him marveling at color TV, wrinkling his nose atthe Beats, and reeling at the outpouring of racial hatred attendinga civil rights demonstration in Alabama. Overflowing with insightand amusement, Hermit in Paris is an invaluable addition to theCalvino legacy.
【作者简介】
Italo Calvino (1923—1985) was born in Cuba and grew up in SanRemo, Italy. He was a member of the partisan movement during theGerman occupation of northern Italy in World War II. The novel thatresulted from that experience, published in English as The Pathto the Nest of Spiders, won widespread acclaim. His other worksof fiction include The Baron in the Trees, TheCastle of Crossed Destinies, Cosmicomics,Difficult Loves, If on a Winter’s Night aTraveler, Invisible Cities,Marcovaldo, Mr. Palomar, TheNonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount, tzero, Under the Jaguar Sun, The Watcherand Other Stories, and Numbers in theDark. His works of nonfiction include include TheRoad to San Giovanni and Six Memos for the NextMillennium.
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