- World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
"Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Italo Calvino
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 194
- Publisher
- A. Mondadori, Ecco Press, W W Norton & Co Ltd
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, Korean, English
- ISBN
- 9788937482144
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“including the tone of my earliest short stories and of my first novel. This is what strikes me most today: the anonymous voice of that age, which comes across more strongly than my own individual inflections which were still rather uncertain.”
Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de *I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,* uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. ---------- Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalis
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