
Calvino Online Literary Criticism Collection from the Internet Public Library.Calvino entries from Brittanica on Line.A brief biographical sketch by Marcie Cartier.Quotations and more, from BeMoreCreative.Com.A wonderful Calvino Home Page by Yoram Puius.From New York Times (requires registration, which is free). 22, 1999 at The Cooper Union in New York. Organized by Giovanna Calvino and held on Oct. A tribute to Calvino, featuring comments by Umberto Eco, Carlos Fuentes, and Salman Rushdie, and readings of his work. Audio Special: Celebrating Italo Calvino.Todd Comer's Outside the Town of Malbork.How Calvino writes - a tenuous response to a well-meant question.A lovely insight from Jerome Bruner that relates to Calvino.Calvino's great translator offers some thoughts on the master. Vidal on Calvino's Death - from The New York Review of Books, 1985.Gore Vidal on Calvino's Novels - from The New York Review of Books, 1974.My Soul is an Empty Inkwell, an elegant essay by Lyslei de Souza Nascimento.

If on a Winter's Night a Writer: The Work of Italo Calvino, by Rhys Hughes.Calvino's Late Novels as Examples of Hypertext, a wonderful essay by Mikhail Viesel (in French)."The Parallels!" Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, by John Barth.Italo Calvino: Postmodernism At Its Most Frustrating, by Jay Schweig.Italo Calvino: Cybernetics and Ghosts, by David C.Calvino's Reality: Designer's Utopia, an elegant essay focusing on Six Memos.Calvino and the Oulipo: An Italian Ghost in the Combinatory Machine? - by Anna Botta for MLN.Calvino and the Value of Literature, by Lucia Re.Palomar, the Triviality of Modernity, and the Doctrine of the Void, by Stefano Franchi.A Path to the Nest of Translation - Giulia Guarnieri discusses her interviews with Italo Calvino's translator as well as the disagreements Calvino had with Pier Paolo Pasolini about the future evolution of the Italian language.

It's free.Īccess to some of the links below are restricted to educational institutions affiliated with Johns Hopkins or the University of Virginia. You will need to register with at the NYT site. Readers, Writers, and Literary Machines - An essay adapted from a lecture delivered in Italy in 1967. Selections in Spanish from Universidad de Chile. Passages from Calvino's books and essays.
