The Road to San Giovanni

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ISBN9780141189710
AuthorsItalo Calvino
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
FormatPaperback
Number of pages112
Weight (kg)0.092
Publishing Date28/05/2009
Price (excl. tax)€13.92
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Price (incl. tax)€14.75
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A collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literature

In these five elegant autobiographical meditations Italo 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.

Translated from the Italian by Tim Parks