The Road to San Giovanni

The Road to San Giovanni

by Italo Calvino
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Publisher:
Penguin Modern Classics
Genre:Novelists, Italian
Language: en
Published:May 01, 2009
ISBN13:9780141189710
ISBN10:0141189711

About the Book

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino's alchemical brilliance.